Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

travel

He travels the fastest who travels alone. 12 more sayings from Rudyard Kipling

You cannot travel within and stand still without. 2 thoughts from James Lane Allen

Travel teaches toleration. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

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

To travel is to take a journey into yourself. 3 more 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 more thoughts from W. C. Fields

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more quotes from Rosalia de Castro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from John Muir

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

A wise traveler never despises his own country. 38 more sayings from William Hazlitt

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. 42 more 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 other views from Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from Jacqueline Cochran

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

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

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 other quotes from Thomas Hood

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

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 more quotes from Clifton Paul Fadiman

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 quotes from Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. 6 wisdom & wit from Hilaire Belloc

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Charles Kuralt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. 39 other 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

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. 39 other quotes 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 thoughts from Andre Gide

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

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

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 quotes 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

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