Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

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Best Quotes about Travel

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.

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

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Eliot, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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

Horace

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Sinclair, Iain

14.

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

Burney, Fanny

15.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

Arbus, Diane

16.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Henry J. Tillman

23.

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

24.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Hynde, Chrissie

25.

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

26.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

27.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

28.

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?

Bishop, Elisabeth

29.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

Ewing, Sam

33.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Frame, Janet

34.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Sackville-West, Vita

35.

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

Cooley, Mason

36.

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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Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

Myrdal, Jan

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

39.

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

Debord, Guy

40.

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

Kommen, Will

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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.

43.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

The Dhammapada

45.

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

46.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Dylan, Bob

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Bardot, Brigitte