"We wander for distraction, but we travel for…" — Hilaire Belloc

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

— Hilaire Belloc

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84 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we…
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter…
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a…
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last…
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you…
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the…
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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More Carpe Diem Quotes

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of… — Diane Ackerman
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their… — Bernard Berenson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra
The human race is governed by its imagination. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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