Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

Best Quotes about Travel

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Henry J. Tillman

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sinclair, Iain

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

17.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

18.

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

19.

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

Debord, Guy

20.

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

Kommen, Will

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

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

Runcie, Robert

25.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette

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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

28.

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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A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

Kundera, Milan

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

The Dhammapada

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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

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

34.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

35.

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

36.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

37.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

Ade, George

38.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

39.

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

Huxley, Aldous

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Burney, Fanny

45.

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

George Santayana

46.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cockburn, Alexander