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Travel Quotes and Sayings

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
St. Augustine

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
Susan Heller

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

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac

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

He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
Moorish proverb

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Dagobert D. Runes

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

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

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

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

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

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

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel�s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
Ray Bradbury

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

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
Orson Welles

One�s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller

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

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.
Terry Hanson

In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children. Robert Benchley

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

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

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
James Michener

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

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

One�s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. G.K. Chesterton

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

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark

I did not fully understand the dread term “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter

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 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

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw

Na Pali Coast21. �All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharial Nehru

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

Tourists don�t know where they�ve been, travelers don�t know where they�re going.
Paul Theroux

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

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill Bryson

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.
Robert Frost

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it
Charles Dudley Warner

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James Michener

The journey not the arrival matters.
T. S. Eliot

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.
Tim Cahill

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

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe
Anatole France

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca

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

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

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

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux

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

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

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye

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