Motivational Quotes

Travel

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Travel

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Cooley, Mason

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

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Sinclair, Iain

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

10.

There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Burney, Fanny

11.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Debord, Guy

12.

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

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

16.

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

The Dhammapada

17.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

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

19.

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Byron, Lord

20.

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

Byron, Lord

25.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Burton, Sir Richard

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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.

29.

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

Thompson, Alice

30.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

31.

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

32.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Bishop, Elisabeth

33.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Burroughs, John

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

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The personal appropriation of clich?s is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Daney, Serge

38.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Cockburn, Alexander

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Kommen, Will

46.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Calvino, Italo

47.

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

48.

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

Runcie, Robert

49.

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

50.

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