You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, plane motors & train whistles.
—George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) from It’s a Wonderful Life
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Post #3156
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Sunday, May 08, 2022
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Monday, September 18, 2017
Post #2406
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Post #1583
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
―Charles Dickens
―Charles Dickens
Friday, June 06, 2014
Post #1567
We love old travelers; we love to hear them prate, drivel, and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
—Mark Twain
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · Never Schooled Yet Learned