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Travel Quotes

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"The further one goes, the less one knows."Lao-tzu (sixth century BC), Legendary Chinese philosopher

"I have found out that there ain't no sure way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."Mark Twain (1835-1910), US novelist and humorist

"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 civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist and poet

"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne."Karen Blixen, also known as Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish novelist

"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993), English novelist and travel writer

"Too often ... would men boast only of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), US novelist

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch... In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am 58 perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked... I fear the disease is incurable."John Steinbeck (1902-1988), US novelist

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."Yogi Berra, US baseball player and coach

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.Mark Twain

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. Paul Tournier

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. Elizabeth Drew

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Lawrence Durrell

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 Paul Fadiman

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha

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

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

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those. Mark Twain

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. Caskie Stinnett

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. Vita Sackville-West

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. Jan Morris

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

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