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Best Quotes About Travel (Top 100)
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams -
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain -
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde -
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu -
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen -
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart -
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron -
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
JRR Tolkien -
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost -
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
Anita Desai -
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson -
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John Cheever -
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 -
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust -
I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way.
Voltaire -
Paris is always a good idea.
Audrey Hepburn -
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld -
I read; I travel; I become
Derek Walcott -
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
John Muir -
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Norton Juster -
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway -
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert -
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway -
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Dalai Lama -
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
Bill Bryson -
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter Ustinov -
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers -
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener -
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie -
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville -
Traveling 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, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Cesare Pavese -
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing -
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley -
Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Jason Mraz -
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain -
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane Austen -
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock -
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham -
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber -
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck -
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore -
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 -
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams -
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
Maira Kalman -
I've been things and I've seen places.
Mae West -
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville -
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot -
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
Anthony Bourdain -
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Anthony Bourdain -
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
Elizabeth Bishop -
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle -
Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
Thor Heyerdahl -
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 -
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld -
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino -
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
Antonio Machado -
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself â and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph -
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
Deborah Moggach -
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither -
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain -
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
Frantz Fanon -
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
Edmund Hillary -
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Aldo Leopold -
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide -
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus -
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman -
I have not told half of what I saw.
Marco Polo -
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Anthony Bourdain -
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi -
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
William S. Burroughs -
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty -
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard -
"ツ鯖 have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
Jon Ronson -
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck -
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman -
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc -
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
John Hope Franklin -
The first step in the journey is to lose your way.
Galway Kinnell -
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
Lucy Lawless -
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern -
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov -
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
Mark Jenkins -
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs -
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave Barry -
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Lawrence Block -
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
James D. Watson -
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore -
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney -
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
Amy Irving -
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley -
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.
Jan Morris -
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Even More Travel Quotes
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Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
Bruce Chatwin -
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli -
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling -
I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
Philip Glass -
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
Mark Jenkins -
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Norman Rockwell -
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer -
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg -
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.
Diana Ross -
A wise traveller never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni -
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Henry Lawson -
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 -
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings -
Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
Euripides -
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
Rabindranath Tagore -
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
Burt Rutan -
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
David Brenner -
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 -
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Edith Wharton -
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino -
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
Billy Connolly -
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood -
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley -
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo -
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
Leonard Nimoy -
There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Kate Douglas Wiggin -
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
Spalding Gray -
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Guy Debord -
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
Jules Verne -
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
Lewis Mumford -
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller -
While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.
Gene Spafford -
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton -
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran -
Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians— with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds— project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.
Bruce Chatwin -
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin -
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes -
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
Alexei Sayle -
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley -
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
Ernest Shackleton -
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Alice Meynell -
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
Garrison Keillor -
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale -
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
Count Basie -
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney -
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
Anne Tyler -
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Russell Baker -
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 -
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
Henry A. Wallace -
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt -
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake -
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Jean Kerr -
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry -
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw -
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell -
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
August Strindberg -
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
David Deutsch -
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Shultz -
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide -
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris -
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev -
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards -
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller -
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty -
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
Bruce Dern -
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Noel Coward -
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase -
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
Bonnie Tyler -
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander -
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
Cole Porter -
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
Alec Waugh -
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
Bill Frist -
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Britney Spears -
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."
Joe Bob Briggs -
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser -
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Anna Louise Strong -
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro -
A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.
Katie Couric -
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne -
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby -
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller -
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade -
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes -
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
Loretta Young -
Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.
Jan Myrdal -
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
Bob Hayes -
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
Christopher Fry -
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton -
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Margaret Oliphant -
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter -
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen -
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn -
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert Runcie -
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine -
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee -
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
Rose Macaulay -
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
Bernard Cornwell -
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.
Will Ferguson -
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Dagobert D. Runes -
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
Jonathan Raban -
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand -
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell -
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Christy Mathewson -
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate -
He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas More -
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen -
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell -
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Benjamin Franklin -
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc -
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
Cynthia Ozick -
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
Dave Barry -
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen -
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace -
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew -
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
Janet Frame -
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams -
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett -
Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.
Roselle Mercier Montgomery -
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
Jan Morris -
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson -
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
Harry Golden -
We in middle age require adventure.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
Bob Dylan -
There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
Jan Myrdal -
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly Cleary -
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau -
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain -
The journey is the destination.
Dan Eldon -
It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
Cate Blanchett -
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese Proverb -
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani -
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt -
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Mark Twain -
A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father
Sigmund Freud -
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway -
Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli -
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
Hugh Sidey -
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John Burroughs -
It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.
Mario Batali -
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley -
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
Frank Oz -
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller -
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller -
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine -
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide -
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Jonathan Swift -
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.
Christian Morgenstern -
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
Kenneth Koch