Famous 2 Travel 2 Quotation
June 7, 2009
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
“Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” — René Descartes
“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
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” –- Henry Miller
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –- John Steinbeck
“In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children.” — Robert Benchley
‘But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?” — Noel Coward
“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Anne Sophie Swetchine
“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” –- Robert Thomas Allen
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew
“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen
“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” — Samuel Johnson
“Long voyages, great lies.” – Italian proverb
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –- Hodding Carter
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de St. Exupery
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener
“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” — Fitzhugh Mullan
“No matter where you go, there you are.” – unknown
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there.” — unknown
“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” — Frank Herbert
“He travels fastest who travels alone.” — proverb
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton
“The journey not the arrival matters.” — T. S. Eliot
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang
St. Augustine
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine
…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
Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you’ll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away…One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.
Gail Rubin Bereny
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight seeing”.
Daniel J. Boorstin
There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!
Brähmann
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything.
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 Bryson
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Sir Richard Burton
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
Lord Byron
Embrace the detours.
Kevin Charbonneau
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way.
Colette
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
Travellers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
Noel Coward
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
The journey not the arrival matters.
T. S. Eliot
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
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