“A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”
Lini
(15 October 1994)
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Robert Jordan305
American writer 1948–2007Related quotes
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 220)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, in Chapter 15 "To the Ice"
See also https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hemingways-stolen-quotati_b_6868994.
Misattributed
Variant: It is good to have an end to a journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
Aberjhani (1957) author
(from To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson’s Moccasins).
From Articles, Essays, and Poems, On Michael Jackson
Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Variant: Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Source: Twelfth Night
