Travel Quotes

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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~ St. Augustine

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full." ~ Lord Dunsany

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." ~ Anatole France

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing." ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." ~ Herman Melville

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road." ~ William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." ~ G.K. Chesterton

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners." ~ Mason Cooley

"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage." ~ Regina Nadelson

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within." ~ Lillian Smith

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." ~ Mark Twain

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." ~ James Michener

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ~ Mark Twain

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." ~ Aldous Huxley

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." ~ G.K. Chesterton

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey." ~ Babs Hoffman

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." ~ Glenn Clark

"I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." ~ Anna Louise Strong

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." ~ Eudora Welty

"The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor." ~ Unknown

"If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel." ~ Sir Vivian Fuchs

"The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass." ~ Mark Twain, part of travelog from his trip to Egypt.

"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ursula K. LeGuin

"A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change." ~ Katharine Butler Hathaway

"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own." ~ Margaret Mead

"I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going." ~ Paul Theroux

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." ~ Freya Stark

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure." ~ Aldous Huxley

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

"I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart." ~ Colette

"He who does not travel does not know the value of men." ~ Moorish proverb

"Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating." ~ Michael Crichton

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain

"Life is short and the world is wide." ~ Simon Raven

"Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

"The grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home." ~ Paul Theroux

"All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time." ~ Paul Fussell

"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." ~ Miriam Beard

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment." ~ Hilaire Belloc

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." ~ Jack Kerouac

"Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art." ~ Freya Stark

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." ~ Rudyard Kipling

"Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." ~ Cesare Pavese

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds." ~ Caleb Colton

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone." ~ The Dhammapada

"For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort." ~ Aldous Huxley - Along the Road

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." ~ Susan Sontag

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." ~ John Steinbeck

"It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places." ~ Paul Theroux

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." ~ Maya Angelou

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist." ~ Russell Baker

"I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us." ~ Lord Byron

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." ~ Henry Miller

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me." ~ Bertrand Russell

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." ~ Lin Yutang

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~ Lao Tzu

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it." ~ Charles Dudley Warner

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

"Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries." ~ Ren? Descartes

"One?s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ~ Henry Miller

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." ~ Susan Heller

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu

"Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." ~ Hodding Carter

"He who would travel happily must travel light." ~ Antoine de St. Exupery

"Let your memory be your travel bag." ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." ~ Fitzhugh Mullan

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there." ~ Unknown

"Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." ~ Frank Herbert

"He travels fastest who travels alone." ~ proverb

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." ~ Izaak Walton

"The journey not the arrival matters." ~ T. S. Eliot

"They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea." ~ Horace

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." ~ Tim Cahill

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." ~ Jawaharal Nehru

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." ~ Moslih Eddin Saadi

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." ~ Martin Buber

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." ~ Mohammed

"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." ~ Peter Hoeg

"The journey is my home." ~ Muriel Rukeyser

"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." ~ Lawrence Block

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." ~ Pat Conroy

"I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home." ~ William Hazlitt