The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (568 page)

Read The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Online

Authors: John Andrew Simpson,

BOOK: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
7.11Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
TRAVEL broadens the mind
1929
Poet & Lunatics
iii.
He may be a trifle cracked, .. but that's only because his travels have been too much for his intellect. They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
1949
Painted Garden
iii.
Foreign travel broadens the mind .. and a broadened mind helps all art.
1969
When in Greece
xvii.
‘The Americans we have met compare very favorably with most other nationals.’ Travel, after all, can broaden only so many minds.
1981
Commonplace Book
22
It has so truly been said that travel—anywhere—broadens the mind.
1997
Times
24 Dec. 14
The past may be a foreign country through which we travel as strangers. But travel still broadens the mind.
experience
;
travel
He TRAVELS fastest who travels alone
Cf.
1854
H. D. THOREAU
Walden
78 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
1888
Story of Gadsby
(1889) 94
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
1921
Journal
19 June in
Diaries
(1979) 129
Hale's gone already. I suppose he will have to. ‘He travels fastest who travels alone’ anyway.
1989
Reflections in Jaundiced Eye
iv.
The reason I can ‘do what I do’ is because I've never married. He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she.
efficiency and ineffiency
;
independence
;
travel

Other books

Raphaela's Gift by Sydney Allan
The Witch Is Back by H. P. Mallory
Spree by Collins, Max Allan
Kate Moore by To Kiss a Thief
Seduced 3 by Jones, P.A.
Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron
Polaris by Beth Bowland