Quotes about travel

"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."

Frame, Janet on travel   

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse"

Fuller, Thomas on travel   

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."

Fuller, Thomas on travel
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"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on travel   

"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country."

Goldoni, Carlo on travel   

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

Goldsmith, Oliver on travel
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"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."

Goldsmith, Oliver on travel   

"The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations."

Goodman, Paul on travel   

"The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful."

Gordimer, Nadine on travel   

"Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners."

Gulistan, Sadi on travel   

"I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home."

Hazlitt, William on travel
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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

Hemingway, Ernest on travel   

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

Horace on travel   

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

Huxley, Aldous on travel
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"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."

Huxley, Aldous on travel   

"Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me."

Hynde, Chrissie on travel   

"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."

James, Henry on travel   

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"Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy."

Jefferson, Thomas on travel
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"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

Johnson, Samuel on travel   

"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

Keats, John on travel   

"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."

Kierkegaard, Søren on travel   

"If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel."

Kommen, Will on travel   

"The map is not the territory."

Korzybski, Alfred on travel   

"A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time."

Kundera, Milan on travel   

"Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."

Kuralt, Charles on travel   

"Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows."

Lao-Tzu on travel   

"Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells."

Lawrence, D. H. on travel   

"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither."

Lawrence, D. H. on travel   

"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."

Lerner, Max on travel   

"Does this boat go to Europe, France?"

Loos, Anita on travel   

"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."

Meynell, Alice on travel   

"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."

Miller, Henry on travel   

"We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on travel   

"A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on travel
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"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."

Myrdal, Jan on travel   

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

Nadelson, Regina on travel