Jan 17 2009
Quotations
Travel Quotations
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” –- Henry Miller
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharal Nehru
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”–Carl Sagan
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.”–Robert Louis Stevenson
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” — Freya Stark
“The thing to remember when traveling is the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you will miss all you are traveling for.” — Louis L’amour
“Certainly, travel is more than just the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent in the ideas of living.”–Miriam Beard
Food Quotes
“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.” –Alice May Brock
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“Good food ends with good talk.”—Geoffrey Neighor
“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces—just good food from fresh ingredients.”—Julia Child
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”—M.F.K. Fisher
Wine Quotations
“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. “—William Shakespeare
“Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.”—Samuel Johnson
“If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?”—Cardinal Richelu
“In vino veritas [In wine is truth].”—Proverb quoted by Plato
“From wine what sudden friendship springs!”—John Gay
Quotations about Writing
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.”–Sharon O’Brien
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you’ve got something to say.”–F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”–Ernest Hemingway
“When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it’s a wonderful way to spend one’s life.”–Erica Jong
