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

travel

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 thoughts from Henny Youngman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from John Muir

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

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 quotes from William Shakespeare

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

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

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 quotes from Jacqueline Cochran

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

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

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

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

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 views from Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

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 wisdom & wit from Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Two great talkers will not travel far together. 2 other wisdom & wit from George Borrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. 32 quotes from William Blake

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

Travel teaches toleration. 75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from Swami Vivekananda

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 views from W. C. Fields

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

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

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

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

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. 10 more views 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 other sayings from Rosalia de Castro

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

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from George Ade

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