Motivational Quotes

Travel

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

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.

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

Runcie, Robert

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

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

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

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

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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.

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

Ade, George

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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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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

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

21.

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

Burney, Fanny

22.

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Colette

24.

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

Cooley, Mason

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

30.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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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

32.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

33.

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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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

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

40.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Huxley, Aldous

45.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Kuralt, Charles

49.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dylan, Bob