Quotes About Travel
Every moment is travel - if understood. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~ Gustave Flaubert
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. ~ Jack Kerouac
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. ~ Martin Buber
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~ Orson Welles
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. ~ Diane Arbus
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. ~ Francis Bacon
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ St. Augustine
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~ Lao Tzu
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. ~ Leigh Hunt
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~ James Baldwin
The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. ~ Colette
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~ Mason Cooley
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no secong journey on the same trail ever affords. ~ Edith Durham
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. ~ Judith Thurman
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. ~ Charles Dickens
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. ~ Paul Theroux
If you look like your passport photo, then in all probability you need the journey. ~ Earl Wilson
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ~ Erma Bombeck
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where your going, because you might not get there. ~ Yogi Berra
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ George Moore
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ~ Erma Bombeck
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. ~ Tennessee Williams
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~ John Steinbeck
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Put me on a moving train if I'm sick, and I'll get well. It's good for mind and body to get out and see the world. ~ Maria D. Brown
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and restshis head on his old, familiar pillow. ~ Lin Yutang
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for. ~ Louis L'Amour
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ~ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The journey itself is my home. ~ Bashō
The road is better than the inn. ~ Cervantes
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ Aldous Huxley
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom. ~ Louise Nevelson
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. ~ Siddhartha Gautama
To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Andersen
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ~ Anaïs Nin
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~ G.K. Chesterton
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
He travelled in order to come home. ~ William Trevor
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. ~ Mother Teresa
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. ~ E.E. Cummings
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~ Ray Bradbury
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. ~ Katherine Mansfield
It easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. ~ Japanese proverb
If you don't know where you're going, you wind up somewhere else. ~ Yogi Berra
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ~ Samuel Johnson
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~ Steven Wright
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for. ~ Louis L'Amour
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~ Elizabeth Drew
Travel brings power and love back into your life. ~ Rumi
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~ Seneca