Travel Quotes
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Blake, William
The man who never in his mind and thought travelled to heaven, is not an artist.
Buckley Jr, William F.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Cranshaw, Ralph
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.
de Maintenon, Francoise
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Deuel, Jean
Never take a cross country trip with a kid who has just learned to whistle.
Drew, Elizabeth
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
Feltham, Owen
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. -- Owen Feltham
Franklin, John Hope
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Frost, Robert
Two roads diverged in a woods, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Goldoni, Carlo
A wise traveler never despises his own country. -- Carlo Goldoni
Hammarskjold, Dag
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Hazlitt, William
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
Heller, Susan
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
Huxley, Aldous
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley
Irving, Washington
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
John, I
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Kommen, Will
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.
Lao-Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
Le Guin, Ursula
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Mllan, Fitzhugh
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
Moore, George
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
When I am . . . traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Nadelson, Regina
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
Pearson, Carol
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Proust, Marcel
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Rockefeller Jr, J. D.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Ruskin, John
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
Saadi, Moslih Eddin
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
Seneca
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. -- Seneca
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Thoreau, Henry David
The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Tillotson, John
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
Walton, Izaak
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Walton, Sam
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Warner, Charles Dudley
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Welty, Eudora
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
White, E.B.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Whitehead, Alfred North
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead