Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- Burney, Fanny

Best Quotes about Travel

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

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Henry J. Tillman

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

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

Burney, Fanny

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

Daney, Serge

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Certainly, 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

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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

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Kuralt, Charles

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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Lawrence, D. H.

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

21.

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Runcie, Robert

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

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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

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

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

Cooley, Mason

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Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

George Santayana

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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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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

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

Thompson, Alice

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Proverb

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

The Dhammapada

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

Sinclair, Iain

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

Debord, Guy

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Horace

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

Kommen, Will

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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Goodman, Paul

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Nadelson, Regina

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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.