Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

Best Quotes about Travel

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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

Horace

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlitt, William

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Charles Kuralt

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Frame, Janet

10.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

11.

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.

12.

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

Sinclair, Iain

13.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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.

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

George Santayana

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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Raban, Jonathan

20.

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?

Bishop, Elisabeth

21.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Goodman, Paul

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

George Moore

26.

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

27.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

28.

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

Arbus, Diane

29.

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

30.

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

Burton, Sir Richard

31.

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

Kommen, Will

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Kuralt, Charles

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Bishop, Elisabeth

38.

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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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Twain, Mark

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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Eliot, George

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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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

45.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

46.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

48.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

49.

I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux