Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

George Santayana

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

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

Henry J. Tillman

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

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

The Dhammapada

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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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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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

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

Kommen, Will

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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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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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

32.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

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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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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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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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

Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinbeck, John