Road Totals

Wander often
Wonder always - Unknown

A wise traveler never despises his own country. - Carlo Goldoni

A journey is a person in itself, no two are alike. - John Steinbeck

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. - Steven Wright

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. - Wayne Dyer

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. - Walt Whitman

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "what for?" - Steven Wright

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there. - Steven Wright

The Bible does not give us a road map for life, but it does give us a compass. - Gordon S. Jackson

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. - Saint Therese de Lisieux

There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton

The church is close, but the road is icey. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. - Russian Proverb

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. - Anatole France

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. - Erma Bombeck

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux

If all difficulties were known at the onset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. - Dan Rather

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. - Jon Bon Jovi

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. - Theodor Adorno

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. - Jack Kerouac

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision. - Unknown

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. - Peter F Drucker

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. - G K Chesterton

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. - Tahir Shah

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. - Dag Hammarskjold

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. - Tim O'Reilly

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. - Lillian Smith