Quotes about travel

"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."

Oliphant, Margaret on travel   

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends."

Powell, John Enoch on travel   

"Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure."

Proverb on travel
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"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."

Raban, Jonathan on travel   

"In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."

Runcie, Robert on travel   

"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider."

Runyon, Damon on travel   

"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."

Sackville-West, Vita on travel   

"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."

Shaw, George Bernard on travel   

"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."

Sinclair, Iain on travel   

"Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures."

Sontag, Susan on travel   

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable."

Steinbeck, John on travel   

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

Steinbeck, John on travel
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"He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel   

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel   

"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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection."

Streeter, Edward on travel   

"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."

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De on travel   

"A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them."

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De on travel
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"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

Theroux, Paul on travel   

"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."

Theroux, Paul on travel   

"Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture."

Thompson, Alice on travel   

"He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience."

Thoreau, Henry David on travel   

"Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."

Thoreau, Henry David on travel   

"Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."

Thurber, James on travel   

"You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom."

Twain, Mark on travel   

"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."

Twain, Mark on travel
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"Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office."

Unknown, Source on travel   

"If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?"

Unknown, Source on travel   

"Old men and far travelers may lie with authority."

Unknown, Source on travel   

"The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see."

Unknown, Source on travel   

"The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall."

Unknown, Source on travel   

"Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip."

Unknown, Source on travel   

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter."

Watkins, Susan M. on travel   

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."

Whitman, Walt on travel   

"I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."

Wilde, Oscar on travel   

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."

Wilde, Oscar on travel   

"I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee."

Wordsworth, William on travel