Quotes about travel

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

— Alice Thompson

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.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— James Thurber

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

— Mark Twain

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

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Susan M. Watkins

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.

— Walt Whitman

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.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— William Wordsworth

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world

— MaryAnne Radmacher- Hershey

Traveling is a kind of torture, as it prevents one from sleeping and eating! So when one has finished his job, he should return quickly to his family.

— Prophet Mohammad

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

— Marcel Proust

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

— Ernest Hemingway

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.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson