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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill BrysonTRANSCRIPT
“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
