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merlin

I'd like to collect a list of quotes, but only the best and only those having to do with travel, life as an expat, teaching, learning, and language, so most "witty quotes" lists already out there aren't what I want.

So many of you have such clever quotes but the task of cutting and pasting all of them myslef is a bit daunting, and I can't remember who has what clevever quote.

Would you pretty please enter them in here? Or any others that you run across?

spidey · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

If I may be the first...

"Just as you can never step in the same river twice, so it is that you can never meet the same person twice.
Yours Truly"

I think you know the author. Wink

S

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Those who can- do. Those who can't- teach.Those who can't teach- go into teacher training. Rod Bolithio. (big teacher trainer and author out here in Turkey.

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject: Those who can't .....

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

All education is political.
Paulo Freire

WYSIWYG · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ~ Isaac Newton

sojourner

Hi Merlin,

Over three years ago, as I was still working up enough courage to leave my homeland in order to work somewhere in East Asia, I came across Dave's ESL Cafe. I soon became hooked ! One of the first postings on Dave's that I read contained the following quotation, regarding the benefits of travel, that I subsequently decided to save to a floppy - but which I soon forgot about until just last weekend when I was perusing some of my old discs. So, here it is - I hope that the 'paste' function is working !

( WARNING: if anyone is easily offended by references to the 'G' word, quickly go onto the next posting ! )

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"When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak so you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends upon them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in difficult situations. And you accept any small favor from God with great delight, as if it were an episode you would remember for the rest of your life. At the same time, since all things are new, you see only the beauty in them, and you feel happy to be alive."
(From "The Pilgrimage" by Paul Coelho)

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Peter

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WYSIWYG · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

carnac · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

I know you meant "travel",but you wrote "tavel",so I will contribute a Tavel quote:
Tavel
The "first ros� of France" and of the Cotes du Rhone, famous since the 10th century, Tavel wines were present on the Pope's table when the papacy was located in Avignon in the 14th century. This wine is produced with a number of wine varieties. Smooth, generous and fruity, with an amber-shaded color of incredible intensity, it shows hints of topaz-colored reflections on aging. Its connoisseurs appreciate it young and fresh, richly telling of all the scents and flavors of the southern French hills.

And, it's nice with mussels marinara. Or a Big Mac.

carnac · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

More seriously,Mark Twain:
"To any foreigner, English is exceedingly difficult. Even the angels speak it with an accent."

merlin · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

Several good ones in here. I'm cutting and pasting as fast as I can.

I might even look in the local supermarket for a box of that tavel wine.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

"Wherever you go, there you are." -- author unknown

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." -- James Michener

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

"One�s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." �- Henry Miller

For more travel quotations, here's a site you might want to check out:
http://honeymoons.about.com/cs/wordsofwisdom/a/TravelQuotes.htm

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

From an American senator when the question of bilingualism came up:
"if English was good enough for Jesus Christ ........"