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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. -- Amelia Barr
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. -- Tennessee Williams
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. -- Pat Conroy
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. -- Michel de Montaigne
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. -- Thomas Hobbes
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. -- George William Curtis
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. -- Marcel Proust
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. -- Henry Ward Beecher
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. -- Christopher Columbus
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. -- Norman Cousins
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. -- Christopher Columbus
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. -- Pat Conroy
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. -- Agnes de Mille
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. -- Frederick Sanger
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. -- Gene Roddenberry
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. -- Samuel Johnson
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life. -- Seneca the Younger
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -- Aeschylus
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. -- William Shakespeare
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord. -- Christopher Columbus
Voyages are accomplished inwardly. -- Henry Miller
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! -- George William Curtis
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. -- Gene Roddenberry
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. -- Julien Green
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. -- Joseph Jacobs
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. -- William Bligh
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. -- William Cooke Taylor
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! -- Blaise Pascal
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. -- Fred Hoyle
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. -- Harry Johnston
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. -- Thomas Merton
You must dare to make new voyages. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper. -- George William Curtis
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. -- Israel Shenker
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. -- Phillip Adams
Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. -- E. B. White
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. -- Wyndham Lewis
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? -- Abraham Cowley
I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. -- Lord Byron
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets. -- Qurratulain Hyder
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. -- William Cooke Taylor
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. -- Henry David Thoreau
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. -- Ambrose Bierce

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