Luggage

thumb|Luggage Luggage or Baggage consists of bags, cases, and containers which hold a traveller's articles during transit. Quotes Riches are the baggage of virtue; they cannot be spared nor left behind, but they hinder the march. Francis Bacon, Ornamenta Rationalia Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden, so too, the bhikkhu becomes content with robes to protect his body and with almsfood to maintain his stomach, and wherever he goes he sets out taking only these with him. Possessing this aggregate of noble virtue, he experiences within himself a bliss that is blameless. Gautama Buddha, Majjhima Nikaya, B. Nanamoli and B. Bodhi, trans. (1995), Sutta 51, Verse 15, p. 450 The French succeeded because the new upwardly mobile and socially anxious classes were remarkably similar around the world. American yuppies, French bon chic bon, English Sloane Rangers, Japanese roppongi, and Russian neocapitalists all needed similar signature goods. They all traveled, so they all needed luggage. James B. Twitchell Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury http://books.google.com/books?id=o44LTMT2LIUC&pg=PA128 21 August 2012 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-50056-2 128 See also Travel External links Baggage Category:Themes