Quotes for All
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse … Read more
Fighting isn’t all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills. Eiji Yoshikawa
My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond’s gold and drifter’s gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer’s gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . … Read more
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Don Blanding
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn’t afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage. Christina Applegate
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices – open-handedness – to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, … Read more
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds. Benjamin Franklin
I’m a bit of a vagabond – a person who loses time and space because you don’t know where you are. Annie E. Clark
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. Annie Dillard
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use. Anita Roddick