| Quote | Author |
| "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" | Zen saying |
| What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” | William Least Heat Moon |
| Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. | Wendell Berry |
| “I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.” | W.C. Fields
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"Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh."
| W.B. Yeats
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| "It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal." | Tom Waits |
| A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. | Tim Cahill |
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
| Thomas Love Peacock
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
| Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
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For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
| Thomas Becon, Catechism
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Wine is a passport to the world.
| Thom Elkjer, Adventures in Wine
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Wine is perhaps the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life.
| Thom Elkjer, Adventures in Wine
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| "Do not tell me how well educated you are or how old you are. Tell me how much you have traveled and I will tell you how much you know." | The Prophet Mohammed |
“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
| Tennessee Williams
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“I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!”
| Tanya Masse
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“Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING!”
| Tanya Masse
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| “The journey not the arrival matters.” | T. S. Eliot |
| “I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence…luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.” | Sylvia Plath
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| “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” | Susan Sontag |
“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.”
| Stephen Fry |
| “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” | St. Augustine |
| "Two great talkers will not travel far together." | Spanish Proverb
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| "If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel" | Sir Vivian Fuchs |
| One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. | Sir Richard Burton |
| It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. | Sir Edmund Hillary |
| The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. | Shirley MacLaine |
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
| Shakespeare
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Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.
| Serena Sutcliffe
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| “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” | Seneca |
If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.
| Sandra Byrd
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
| Samuel Johnson
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| “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” | Samuel Johnson |
| All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” | Samuel Johnson |
| "It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home." | Rumi |
| "Either give me more wine, or leave me alone" | Rumi |
| “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” | Rudyard Kipling |
| Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. | Roy M. Goodman |
“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”
| Roman Payne
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Wine is bottled poetry.
| Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
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| “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” | Robert Frost |
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
| Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.
| Ray Bradbury
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| Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. | Ray Bradbury |
"Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of care"
| Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
| Proverbs 20:1
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"In wine there is truth"
| Pliny the Elder
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
| Plautus
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“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”
| Plato
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Wine is older than history. Humans didn't invent wine. We discovered it.
| Philip Seldon, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine
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| Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. | Peter Hoeg |
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
| Paulo Coelho
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"Wine is like the incarnation - both devine and human"
| Paul Tillich
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| “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” | Paul Theroux |
| “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” | Paul Theroux |
| “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” | Paul Fussell |
| “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” | Pat Conroy |
| "I like on the table when we are drinking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine" | Pablo Neruda
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| A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
| Oliver Goldsmith
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“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song"...
| Neil Gaiman
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“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.”
| Neel Burton
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| Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. | Neale Donald Walsch |
| ″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” | Moslih Eddin Saadi |
| “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” | Moorish proverb |
| “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” | Miriam Beard |
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
| Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
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| “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” | Maya Angelou |
| Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. | Matthew Karsten |
Great wines taste like they come from somewhere. Lesser wines taste interchangeable; they could come from anywhere. You can't fake somewhereness. You can't manufacture it ... but when you taste a wine that has it, you know.
| Matt Kramer
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| I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. | Mary Anne Radmacher |
Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.
| Marty Rubin
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"Beer is made by man, wine by God"
| Martin Luther
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| "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." | Martin Buber |
| “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” | Mark Twain |
| "Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell." | Mark Twain |
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
| Mark Twain
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| “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” | Mark Twain |
| "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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 |
| “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” | Mark Jenkins |
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
| Louis Pasteur
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| “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” | Lin Yutang |
| “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” | Lillian Smith |
| Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. | Lawrence Block |
| “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” | Lao Tzu |
| "Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God." | Kurt Vonnegut |
It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine, It's summertime
| Kenny Chesney
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| "Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order." | Katherine Mansfield |
A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.
| Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible
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One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.
| Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible
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Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life.
| Julia Child, attributed, Wine: Grape Goddess
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| People don’t take trips, trips take people. | John Steinbeck |
| “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” | John Steinbeck |
| Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. | John Muir |
“The wine - it made her limbs loose and liquid, made her feel that a hummingbird had taken the place of her heart.”
| Jodi Picoult
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The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.
| Jim Harrison attributed, Adventures in Wine
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| “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” | James Michener |
“White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.”
| James Joyce
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| "Not all those who wander are lost." | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. | Irving Wallace |
| Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. | Ibn Battuta |
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
| Horace, Odes
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
| Homer
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Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
| Herman Melville, Mardi
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| It is not down in any map; true places never are. | Herman Melville |
| “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” | Henry Miller |
| The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. | Henry David Thoreau |
“A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.”
| Henry David Thoreau
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| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller |
| I'm going where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain, going where the weather suits my clothes. | Harry Nilsson |
| To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live. | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. | Gustave Flaubert |
| “I shall drink no wine before it’s time! OK, it’s time.” | Groucho Marx
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"Wine makes all things possible"
| George R.R. Martin
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
| George Gordon Byron
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"What wine goes with Captain Crunch?"
| George Carlin
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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
| Galileo
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| The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. | G.K. Chesterton |
| “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” | G. K. Chesterton |
| “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” | Freya Stark |
| “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” | Freya Stark |
“Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.”
| Francis Bacon
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| “Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| You don’t have to be rich to travel well. | Eugene Fodor |
In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
| Ernest Hemingway, A Movable Feast
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| I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy. | Ernest Hemingway |
| “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” | Ernest Hemingway
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
| Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
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“Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.”
| Eric Weiner
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| "Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. " | Elizabeth Drew |
| "When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels." | Edward Dahlberg |
“his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine”
| E.E. Cummings
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| Oh the places you’ll go. | Dr. Seuss |
“Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.”
| Douglas Preston
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“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”
| Diogenes Laërtius
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
| Diogenes
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| “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” | Dagobert D. Runes |
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
| D.H. Lawrence
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| “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” | D. H. Lawrence |
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.
| Craig Ferguson
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| When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. | Clint Borgen |
| “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” | Clifton Fadiman |
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
| Clifton Fadiman
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“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history”
| Clifton Fadiman
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"Life's too short to drink cheap wine"
| Cliff Hakim
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| No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be. | Chuck Thompson |
| Take only memories, leave only footprints. | Chief Seattle |
| There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. | Charles Dudley Warner |
| "One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." | Charles Dickens |
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
| Charles Baudelaire
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| “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” | Cesare Pavese |
| “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” | Carlo Goldoni |
| "To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." | Bill Bryson |
| “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” | Benjamin Franklin |
…wine is a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
| Benjamin Franklin
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| “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” | Benjamin Disraeli |
“I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra”
| Ben Mitchell
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| Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. | Babs Hoffman |
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read
| Athenaeus
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
| Aristophanes, The Wasps
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever!
| Aristophanes, The Knights
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| He who would travel happily must travel light. | Antoine de St. Exupery |
| Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. | Anthony Bourdain |
| Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. | Anonymous |
Wine. How classy people get wasted.
| Anonymous
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| Happiness comes in salty water. | Anonymous |
| Ah, the smell of salt and sand. There is not elixir on this blessed earth like it. | Anonymous |
| Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets. | Anonymous |
“Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long”
| Anonymous
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| There is no wi-fi in the forest but I promise you will find a better connection. | Anonymous |
| Life is waking up an hour early to live an hour more. | Anonymous |
| Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. | Anonymous |
| A change in latitude would help my attitude. | Anonymous |
| We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. | Anonymous |
| I won't stop traveling until I've seen the sun set from every coast. | Anonymous |
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
| Anonymous
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| "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones." | Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. | Anna Quindlen |
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
| Andre Simon
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| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. | Andre Gide |
| “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” | Anatole France |
| We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. | Anais Nin |
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
| Amit Kalantri
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| "It is solved by walking." | Algerian Proverb |
| "Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag." | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” | Aldous Huxley |
| “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” | Aldous Huxley |
| "I love to travel, But hate to arrive." | Albert Einstein |
| Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. | Alan Keightley |
| Adventure is worthwhile. | Aesop |
| "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels" | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| "A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out" | Korean Proverb |
| "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." | Lawrence Durrell |
| "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive." | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson |
| Instead of going to meet gorillas or Bhutan, I prefer to go [my own way] and do things the wealthy wouldn't dare to do." | Paul Theroux |
| "I think the more we travel around the world and learn from various other countries, the better it is, the more we become one community rather than fighting one another." | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| "Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home." | Henry David Thoreau |
| "When you get to be 95, [travel] doesn't come as easily." | John Wooden |
| "A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing" | Thomas Nashe |
| "He that travels much knows much" | Thomas Fuller |
| "Two great talkers will not travel far together." | George Borrow |
| "The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end." | Rabindranath Tagore |
| "Travel is the alternative to war" | Rachel Kaplan |
| "Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel." | John Ruskin |
| "He travels fastest who travels alone" | Proverb |
| "The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle." | Lane Kirkland |
| "There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going." | Mark Caine |
| "When I travel, I don't bring anything I can't stand to lose." | Melisse Gelula |
| "We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing." | Henry David Thoreau |
| "Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so" | Lord Chesterfield |
| "Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else." | Tennessee Williams |
| "He travels best that knows when to return." | Thomas More |
| "Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther." | Thomas Hood |
| "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it" | Eudora Welty |
| "Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| "Age is a bad traveling companion" | English Proverb |
| "Travel teaches toleration." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Travel like a sponge, not a rock." | Author Unknown |
| "A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from" | Lyn Yutang |
| "Wine makes me feel naughty but in a good way" | From the movie Carol (2015) |
| "If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal." | Paulo Coelho |
| "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." | Lao Tzu |
| "Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." | Terry Pratchett |
| "Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body." | Anthony Bourdain |
| "Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near." | Paulo Coelho |
| "For the born traveler, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort." | Aldous Huxley |
| "Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn" | Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur |
| “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” | Marty Rubin |
| “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” | Marty Rubin |
| “To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth — not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” | T.L Rese |
| “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” | Holstee Manifesto |
| “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” | Ralph Crawshaw |
| “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” | George A. Moore |
| “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” | Drake |
| “Oh Darling, Let’s Be Adventurers.” | Anonymous |
| “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world” | Dictionary
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| “It feels good to be lost in the right direction” | Anonymous |
| “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel — as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them — wherever you go.” | Anthony Bourdain |
| “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” | Stephen Covey |
| “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.” | Anonymous |
| “Travel far enough, you meet yourself” | David Mitchell |
| “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” | Anonymous |
| “Life is short and the world is wide.” | Simon Raven |
| “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” | Henry David Thoreau |
| “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” | Hilaire Belloc |
| “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” | Marcel Proust |
| “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” | Gayle Foreman |
| “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” | Bill Bryson |
| “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” | Benjamin Disraeli |
| “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” | Albus Dumbledore |
| “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” | Oscar Wilde |
| “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” | John A. Shedd |
| “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.” | Jawaharial Nehru |
| “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” | Anonymous |
| “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” | Island Company |
| “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to” | Alain de Botton |
| “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” | Ray Bradbury |
| “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” | Carew Papritz |
| “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” | Drake |
| “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” | Marcus Garvey |
| “Oh Darling, Let’s Be Adventurers.” | Anonymous |
| “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” | Asian Proverb |
| “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” | Marcus Purvis |
| “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” | Jack Kerouac |
| “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” | Randy Komisar |
| “It feels good to be lost in the right direction” | Anonymous |
| “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” | Jamie Lyn Beatty |
| “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” | Lovelle Drachman |
| “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” | John Green |
| “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” | Paolo Coelho |
| “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” | Edith Wharton |
| “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” | Anonymous |
| “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” | Anonymous |
| “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” | Anonymous |
| “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” | Anonymous |
| "Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life." | Michael Palin |
| The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. | Sam Ewing |
| Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. | Ray Bradbury |
| And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. | Paul Fussell |
| Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. | Walt Whitman |
| Pleasant company on the road is the shortest cut. | Italian proverb |
| Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. | Mason Cooley |
| The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. | Daniel Boorstin |
| Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. | Izaak Walton |
| A vacation has three stages: the anticipation, the execution, and the recollection. | Mary Miller |
| The journey is the reward. | Chinese proverb |
| Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. | Michael Crichton |
| Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. | Yogi Berra |
| If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse. | Thomas Fuller |
| Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge. | Henry Tuckerman |
| Only he that has journeyed the road knows where the holes are deep | Chinese proverb |
| Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. | Mark Twain |
| I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Some roads aren't meant to be traveled alone. | Chinese proverb |
| The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. | Ernest Hemingway |
| The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. | Amelia Barr |
| You always carry your destiny around your neck, wherever you travel. | Bedouin proverb |
| Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. | Antonio Machado |
| In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. | Samuel Johnson |
| The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. | Russell Baker |
| Explore everything; discover what fate brings you. | Vietnamese proverb |
| When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. | Susan Heller |
| Experience, travel - these are education in themselves. | Euripides |
| I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. | Rosalia de Castro |
| Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. | Francis Bacon |
| I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. | Caskie Stinnett |
| Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. | Anais Nin |
| The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. | William Hazlitt |
| Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. | Thomas Fuller |
| To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| Walking ten thousand miles of the world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls. | Proverb Chinese |
| Let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. | Anonymous |
| A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. | Sheikh Saadi |
| Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. | Regina Nadelson |
| The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. | Louis L'Amour |
| Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. | Goethe |
| The traveler is active; he goes 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. | Daniel Boorstin |
| How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. | Mark Twain |
| Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. | Rick Steves |
| Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. | Charles Kuralt |
| “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” | Jack Kerouac |