Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Quotes for Travellers

“My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”
Edwina Currie (1946 - )
British politician and novelist.
Speech

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.”
Attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)

“Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face.”
Juvenal (65? - 128?)
Roman poet.
Satires

“Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing, with the similar tantalisation that something, sometime, somehow, will turn up.”
George Courtauld (1938 - )
British civil servant and author.
The Travels of a Fat Bulldog
Source: Microsoft Encarta

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