Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Hynde, Chrissie

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

Byron, Lord

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Nadelson, Regina

15.

Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.

Proverb

16.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Cockburn, Alexander

17.

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

18.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

22.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

Ewing, Sam

23.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Cooley, Charles Horton

24.

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

25.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

26.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Runyon, Damon

29.

There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Burney, Fanny

30.

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De

31.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Burton, Sir Richard

32.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Miller, Henry

33.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

34.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Lerner, Max

35.

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

36.

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.

37.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

38.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Calvino, Italo

39.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Sinclair, Iain

40.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

George Santayana

42.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

The personal appropriation of clich?s is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Daney, Serge

45.

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

Colette

46.

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

47.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Powell, John Enoch

48.

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

Horace

49.

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

Hazlitt, William

50.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.