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Travel writing11 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625All 11 quotes →Autobiography and memoir3 quotes
There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country. — Evelyn Waugh · 1934Religious literature2 quotes
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843Adventure novel1 quote
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain · 1894Biography1 quote
So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. — Samuel Johnson · 1776Children's literature1 quote
Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing! — Kenneth Grahame · 1908Comedy (play)1 quote
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know. — William Shakespeare · 1602Comedy drama1 quote
All the things you probably hate about travelling—the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi—are warm reminders that I'm home. — Ryan Bingham · 2009Comedy drama (film)1 quote
All the things you probably hate about travelling—the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi—are warm reminders that I'm home. — Ryan Bingham · 2009Detective fiction1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Epic poem1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Modernist literature1 quote
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. — Marcel Proust · 1922Narrative poem1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Philosophical literature1 quote
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843Romantic comedy (play)1 quote
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know. — William Shakespeare · 1602Satire1 quote
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761