Ancient Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Modern Travel Traveler
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“a journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.” — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of this record i tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one an individual… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
