journey quotes

   A Long Day's Journey Into Night.

-O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
^41  Title of play (published1956).

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Up-Hill'.

   The beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Epipsychidion', l.154^9.

This is the prospect from the watershed, and when the traveller reaches it, it is a good thing to take an hour's leisure and lookout on the visible portions of the journey, since never in one's life can one seethe same view twice.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  Perseus in theWind.

A journey is like a marriage. The certainway to be wrong is to think you control it.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  TravelsWith Charley In Search of America, pt.1.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  An InlandVoyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

   I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

A man who, until he made the journey from London, thought that woad began at Watford.

-Talbot, Godfrey Walker
  Ten Seconds from Now, ch.3. An early reference to the'north of Watford'concept, in whichWatford is regarded as the limit of 'civilization' northwards from London.

To journey is better than to arriveöor so say those who have already arrived.

-Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw
  The Heart of the Country,'Doing It AllWrong'.

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