the quote page - the travel quotes

“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

“I traveled among unknown men, in lands

beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till

then what love I bore to thee”.

-- William Wordsworth

“Travel like a sponge, not a rock”.

-- Anonymous

“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my

journey ends, it simply means the river bends”.

-- John Enoch Powell

“Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to

be back in the land of Coca-Cola”!-- Bob Dylan

“Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of

staying home”.-- Henry David Thoreau

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

home knowledge”.-- Samuel Johnson

“Journeys end in lovers meeting”.

-- William Shakespeare

“The routines of tourism are even more

monotonous than those of daily life”.

-- Mason Cooley

“Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality

has more to do with losing your luggage”.-- Regina Nadelson

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination

by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they

are”.-- Samuel Johnson

“You perceive I generalize with

intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom”.

-- Mark Twain

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first

journeys discover to us the indifference of

places”.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Traveling makes a man wiser and very happy”.-- Thomas Jefferson

“Though there are some disagreeable things in

Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the

visitors”.-- Henry James

“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive”.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Visits always give pleasure; if not the

arrival, the departure”.-- Proverbs

“Though we travel the world over to find the

beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it

not”.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home

and enables me to enjoy it better”.

-- Henry David Thoreau

“A man should ever be ready booted to take his

journey”.-- Michel Eyquem De

Montaigne

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.

The great affair is to move”.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“The map is not the territory”.

-- Alfred Korzybski

“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.''

-- Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

“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”.

-- Johann Wolfgang

“Worth seeing? Yes; and worth going to see”.-- Samuel Johnson

“The world is a book and those who do not travel

read only one page.”-- St. Augustine

““There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

-- John Steinbeck

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see

what he has come to see”.

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel

until he comes home and rests his head on his old,

familiar pillow.” -- Lin Yutang

″A traveler without observation is a bird

without wings.” -- Moslih Eddin Saadi

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one

of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

-- Freya Stark

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the

traveler is unaware.”-- Martin Buber

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know

where they’re going.” -- Paul Theroux