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“It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.”

Way Trying Country Lying Travel Assuming Witness Bags Funny Travel Naive Bribe Investigators

Author:Jim Garrison

“We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.”

Lying Imagination Ability Travel Brilliant Vanity Overwhelming Bores Traveler Fertility Drivel Mendacity

Author:Mark Twain

“some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.”

Way Lying Force Goal Behinds Travel Driven Iron Traveler Arrows Magnet

Author:Isak Dinesen

“The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.”

Ends Lying Suffering Attention Bears Travel Mercy Holiday Coast Mosquitoes Unwelcome

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.”

Firsts Running Lying Travel Planes Bags Running Away Packs

Author:Mary McMullen

“The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.”

Law Lying Share Drink Travel Distance Wanderers

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.”

“Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.”

Home Lying Fool Travel Traveler

Author:William Shakespeare

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”

Lying Journey Movement Travel Calm Inspiring Travel

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

Knows Motivational Past Lying Waiting Cities Travel Traveler Arriving

Author:Italo Calvino

“The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.”

World Life Dream Hands Lying Risk Talent Travel

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”

Stills Enough Lying Time Sleep Blood Journey Travel Breaths Clay Lad

Author:A. E. Housman

“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”

Knows Play Lying Too Much Adventure Travel Photography Luck Photographer Streams Peculiar Unfair Funny Travel Hook

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.”

Hard Lying Sound Dark Watches Sky Dying Cry Baby Cold Calling Travel Letting Go Lows Window Train Glasses Track Breathing Goodbye Touching Begging Saying Goodbye Sinking Follow Me

Author:Melissa Etheridge