Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Thoreau, Henry David

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kommen, Will

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Burney, Fanny

19.

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

20.

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

Horace

21.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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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

25.

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Arbus, Diane

28.

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

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Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De

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

Proverb

31.

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

Runcie, Robert

32.

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

33.

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

34.

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

Sinclair, Iain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Thurber, James

37.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

38.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.

41.

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

42.

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

45.

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Powell, John Enoch

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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