Motivational Quotes

Travel

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Travel

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Nadelson, Regina

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Kuralt, Charles

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

Arbus, Diane

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

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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

George Santayana

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cooley, Mason

16.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Benchley, Robert

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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

18.

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Thompson, Alice

19.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Sackville-West, Vita

20.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Horace

21.

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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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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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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.

Byron, Lord

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

Hynde, Chrissie

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Certainly, 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

34.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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

The Dhammapada

37.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Hemingway, Ernest

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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Johnson, Samuel

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A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

Kundera, Milan

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

46.

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

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

Henry J. Tillman

48.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kommen, Will