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

travel

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

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

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

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.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

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

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.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Travel teaches toleration.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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.

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

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

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

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

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

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

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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

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.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

I was born to travel and write verse.

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

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

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

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

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

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

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

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

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

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