Thursday 23rd May 2013,
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50 Quotes About Travel

Gintaras Jovaisas June 9, 2012 Blog 3 Comments

“Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” – Steve Martin

“Two great talkers will not travel far together.” – Spanish Proverb

“I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.” – Raymond Floyd

“Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.” – Unknown

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”. – Unknown

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

“Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada

“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” – Bumper sticker

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” – Orson Welles

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” – Rumi

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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

“Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.” – Blaise Pascal

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Edward Moore

“A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.” – Lewis Hallam

“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.” – Guy Clark

“I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.” – David Attenborough

“If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.” – Ray Floyd

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

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

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“No matter where I”ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.” – Carmen Electra

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

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” – George Eliot

“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.” – W. C. Fields

“The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.” – Glenn Tipton

“The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.” – George Ade

“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.” – Michael Palin

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.” – John Muir

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

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” – Mason Cooley

“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.” – William Blake

“Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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3 Comments

  1. Miranda December 16, 2012 at 4:09 am

    Love all of these. Some great quotes!

  2. Jaslyn January 7, 2013 at 9:52 am

    I love this list so much! It takes a lot of effort to match a good travel quote with an amazing photo. Good job! :)

  3. Awais April 4, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Loved all the quotes!

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