Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

travel

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. 13 other sayings from John Muir

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. 13 thoughts from John Muir

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. 38 more quotes from William Hazlitt

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. 38 more thoughts from William Hazlitt

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! 81 more wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. 42 thoughts from Josh Billings

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. 17 quotes from John Burroughs

Travelling expands the mind rarely. 3 quotes from Hans Christian Andersen

A wise traveler never despises his own country. 38 other wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

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. 52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. 2 more sayings from Thomas Hood

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. 3 thoughts from Jacqueline Cochran

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. 3 more sayings from Jacqueline Cochran

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. 3 quotes from Clifton Paul Fadiman

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. 9 views from Charles Spurgeon

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. 6 thoughts from Jerzy Kosinski

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. 6 other thoughts from Jerzy Kosinski

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. 19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. 35 other thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. 27 other views from Dave Barry

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. 35 more sayings from Ernest Hemingway

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. 10 thoughts from John D. Rockefeller

Two great talkers will not travel far together. 2 more quotes from George Borrow

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. 6 more views from Hilaire Belloc

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands. 2 quotes from Marcel Carne

I was born to travel and write verse. 3 other sayings from Theophile Gautier

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. 5 wisdom & wit from Cesare Pavese

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. 2 quotes from Linda McCartney

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. 8 other sayings from Charles Kuralt

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. 10 sayings from Robert Benchley

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. 4 more quotes from Truman Capote

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. 8 more sayings from Lewis Mumford

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. 8 more sayings from Helen Hayes

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. 8 quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. 4 more views from Lin Yutang

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? 2 views from Peter Tosh

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. 32 wisdom & wit from William Blake

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. 52 more wisdom & wit from George Eliot

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. 32 thoughts from William Blake

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. 39 sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. 22 views from Andre Gide

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. 39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. 14 other views from Hedy Lamarr

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. 3 quotes from George Edward Moore

An English man does not travel to see English men. 14 views from Laurence Sterne

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

He travels the fastest who travels alone. 12 views from Rudyard Kipling

Travel teaches toleration. 75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot travel within and stand still without. 2 other wisdom & wit from James Lane Allen

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far. 9 more quotes from Swami Vivekananda

To travel is to take a journey into yourself. 3 quotes from Danny Kaye

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. 24 sayings from W. C. Fields

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere. 14 sayings from Loretta Young

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year. 2 sayings from Anatoli Boukreev

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. 9 views from Howard Nemerov

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. 6 other quotes from Ella Maillart

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. 4 quotes from George Ade

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. 7 other quotes from Lawrence Durrell

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. 6 sayings from Ella Maillart

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. 21 wisdom & wit from Anais Nin

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. 7 more sayings from Nikos Kazantzakis

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. 10 quotes from Ramakrishna

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. 2 thoughts from Rosalia de Castro

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. 6 other quotes from Ella Maillart

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. 22 more thoughts from Henry Adams

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. 21 more views from W. H. Auden

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. 6 more thoughts from Liberty Hyde Bailey

Travel, of course, narrows the mind. 8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. 16 quotes from Henny Youngman

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work. 17 other quotes from Chief Joseph