Most of us will be more than happy when 2020 ends, the year of the pandemic, of failed Washington leadership, and resulting raging pandemic, and of no darn travel. So, my quotes tend toward travel, but also include a good dose of general interest, and humor. Let’s try to end the year on some grins and giggles.
“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
― Eduardo Galeano
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
Even better: “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.” – Caskie again
“I changed my password to incorrect. So whenever I forget my password, the login tells me, the password is incorrect.” – Susan Sontag
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.” – Anon
I love this one: “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine!”
“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.” – Alex Trebek
Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
This moment’s a flower too fair and brief
To be wither’d and stain’d by the dust of the schools.
Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue,
But, while they are fill’d from the same bright bowl,
The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue,
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul.—Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, from Irish Melodies, Vol. II“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” – M.F.K. Fisher
As my late 101 year old Uncle often told us, “Just Be nice” -Uncle Nori Masuda
“His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine.”
—E.E. Cummings“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Keep the faith. We’re going to get through all of this, and we will be a better society because of it.” – Alex Trebek
“I still get intimidated when I have to order from a sommelier, or when someone in the business asks me about my favorite wines. The question is a sneakily polite way for them to figure out what kind of person I am. Usually I defer by answering truthfully: Most of the time, I order light beer or sake with food. But the older I get, the more I seem to be drinking wine.” – David Chang
”What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” – George Saunders“It’s time for Christmas to come, don’t you think?” – Vincent van Gogh
“And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” — Louis Armstrong
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mary Ritter Beard
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau (he had me in mind)
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux
Again, please feel free to share some of your favorites. Have a great 2021!!!!
I leave you with one of my favorite songs, as sung by Iz:
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dream of
Once in a lullaby, ohSomewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dream of
Dreams really do come true-ooh-ooh
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops that’s where
You’ll find me, ohSomewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to
Oh why, oh why can’t I? ISomeday I’ll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon dropsHigh above the chimney top that’s where you’ll find me
Oh, somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to
Why, oh why can’t I? IOoh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ah-ah-eh-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
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