Marco Polo > Quotes

“I have not told the half of what I saw.”
― Marco Polo

“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
― Marco Polo, on his deathbed

“I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
― Marco Polo

“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.”
― Marco Polo

“We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came into the world naked and unclothed. As for not being ashamed to show our members, the fact is that we do no sin with them and therefore have no more shame in them than you have when you show your hand or face or the other parts of your body that do not lead you into carnal sin; whereas you use your members to commit sin and lechery, and so you cover them up and are ashamed of them. But we are no more ashamed of showing them than we are of showing our fingers, because we do not sin with them.”
― Marco Polo, The Travels

“You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”
― Marco Polo

“Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.”
― Marco Polo

“You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”
― Marco Polo, The Travels

“The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.”
― Marco Polo, The Travels

“Moreover, no public woman resides inside the city, but all such abide outside in the suburbs. And 'tis wonderful what a vast number of these are for the foreigners; ...”
― Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian

“The inhabitants are all Idolaters. And I may as well remind you again [implied sigh?] that all the people of Cathay are Idolaters.”
― Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian

“If it be questioned how the population of the country can supply sufficient numbers of these duties, and by what means they can be supported, we may answer, that all the idolaters, and likewise the Saracens, keep six, eight, or ten women, according to their circumstances, by whom they have a prodigious number of children. Some of them have as many as thirty sons capable of following their fathers in arms; whereas with us a man has only one wife, and even although she should prove barren, he is obliged to pass his life with her, and is by that means deprived of the chance of raising a family. Hence it is that our population is so much inferior to theirs.”
― Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian

“hidup tanpa alasan dan bepergian tanpa penyesalan”
― Marco Polo