Here are some quotes various people have made on the subject
of travel.
They were taken from a variety of sources, mostly on the
internet.
Do a search on "travel quotes" and you will turn up lots of
them too.
I never wanted to see half the things I've seen,
and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. ~George R. R. Martin
Life is not about how fast you run or how high
you climb, but about how well you bounce. ~Anonymous
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three
weeks after unpacking. ~George Ade
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
Tourists don't know where they've been,
travelers don't know where they're going. ~Paul Theroux
A good holiday is one that is spent
among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~J. B. Priestley
There are no foreign lands. It is the
traveler only who is foreign. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the
country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt
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
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~Seneca
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
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with
experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.
~Dave Barry
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
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~Ray Bradbury
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~Orson Welles
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
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
~Robert Benchley
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the
people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the
airport. ~George Winters
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
~G. K.. Chesterton
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney
parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic
families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter
administration. ~Dave Barry
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
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.
K..
Chesterton
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry
Boye
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel
light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and
fears. ~Glenn Clark
For my part, I travel not to go
anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to
feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this
feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn
with cutting flints. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you come to a fork in the road, take
it. ~Yogi Berra
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then
there'll be time enough to sleep. ~A. E.. Housman
A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not
intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
To awaken quite alone in a strange town
is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ~Freya Stark
The use of traveling is to regulate
imagination by reality. ~Samuel Johnson
Your true traveler 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
The open road is a beckoning, a
strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. ~William Least Heat Moon
(William Trogdon)
He who does not travel does not know the
value of men. ~Moorish proverb
The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller
Our Nature lies in movement; complete
calm is death. ~Pascal, Pensées
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 whom it is that
is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always
invigorating. ~Michael Crichton
Internal burning . . . wandering fever .
. . ~Kalevala
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
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic
experience, and the best travelers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or
three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard
themselves as at once serious persons and clowns. ~Paul Fussell
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle. ~Albert Einstein
Wandering re-establishes the original
harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France
When we get out of the glass bottle of
our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and
get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will
happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
~D. H. Lawrence
. . .life is short and the world is
wide ~Simon Raven
Traveling 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 traveler learns not to
repeat successes but tries new places all the time. ~Paul Fussell
To travel is to discover that everyone is
wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley
I dislike feeling at home when I am
abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw
. . .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 fulfillment. ~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
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere.
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. ~Rumi
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
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness!
There's no looking at a sunset after seeing Italy. ~Fanny Burney
The first condition of understanding a
foreign country is to smell it. ~Rudyard Kipling
All that is gold does not glitter, Not
all those who wander are lost. ~J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"
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, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the
eternal or what we imagine of it. ~Cesare Pavese
Old men and far travelers may lie with
authority. ~Anonymous
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 traveled bodies, but untraveled minds. ~Caleb
Colton
Travel only with thy equals or thy
betters; if there are none, travel alone. ~The Dhammapada
The traveler sees what he sees, the
tourist sees what he has come to see. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
A traveler must have the back of an ass
to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog
to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say
nothing. ~Thomas Nashe
For the born traveler, traveling 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"
Like all great travelers, I have seen
more than I remember; and I remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli
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 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
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
~Tom Stoppard
Travel is glamorous only in
retrospect. ~Paul Theroux
All journeys have secret destinations of
which the traveler is unaware. ~Martin Buber
It is almost axiomatic that the worst
trains take you through magical places. ~Paul Theroux
People travel to faraway places to
watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ~Dagobert D.
Runes, US writer
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
One always begins to forgive a place as
soon as it's left behind. ~Charles Dickens
[The traveler] may feel assured, he will
meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as
he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to
teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting
for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence. . . Traveling ought
also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many
truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever
again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the
most disinterested assistance. ~Charles Darwin
He won't fly on the Balinese airline,
Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in
reincarnation. ~Spalding Gray
I think that wherever your journey takes
you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.
~Susan M. Watkins
A year to go around the world! A whole
twelve months of scenes and curious happenings in far-off foreign lands! You
have thought of doing this, almost promised yourself that when you got old
enough, and rich enough, and could "spare the time," you too would go around the
world. Most of us get old enough; some of us get rich enough; but the time! the
time! - to spare the time, to cut loose from goods and lands, from stocks and
dreary desks, quit clients, patients, readers, home and friends - ay, and our
enemies whom we so dearly love! Full many a promise must be broken and few the
voyagers round the world. ~D. N. Richardson, "A Girdle Round the Earth"
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
The world is a book, and those who do not
travel read only a page. ~Augustine
Man always travels along precipices... His
truest obligation is to keep his balance. ~Pope John Paul II
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
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man,
when to a friend or fellow traveler he tells his grieves. ~Callimachus
The rewards of the journey far outweigh the
risk of leaving the harbor. ~Unknown
Two great talkers will not travel far
together. ~Spanish Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step. ~Confucius
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. ~Albert
Einstein
If you actually look like your passport photo,
you aren't well enough to travel. ~Sir Vivian Fuchs
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a
single step. ~Lao-Tzu
A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead
and dreams of a faraway place A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and
dreams of home. ~Carl Burns
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 travelogue 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
Traveling into a black hole is literally an
escape from reality. ~Tony Follari
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