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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
Knowledge is
Bought only with a weary care,
And wisdom means a world of pain.
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.
After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.
In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend, or be rid on't.
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.
One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.
With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.
