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Robert Louis Stevenson4 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 · 1879To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Francis Bacon2 quotes
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. — Francis Bacon · 1625Juvenal2 quotes
The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — JuvenalTravel light and you can sing in the robber's face. — Juvenal · 127Mark Twain2 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869I 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 · 1894William Hazlitt2 quotes
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. — William Hazlitt · 1822Aldous Huxley1 quote
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. — Aldous Huxley · 1925Bill Bryson1 quote
What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. — Bill Bryson · 1991Boris Pasternak1 quote
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Charles Kuralt1 quote
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. — Charles Kuralt · 1990Daniel Boorstin1 quote
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.” — Daniel Boorstin · 1962Dante Alighieri1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Douglas Adams1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988E.M. Forster1 quote
Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. — E.M. Forster · 1910Evelyn Waugh1 quote
It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country. — Evelyn Waugh · 1934G.K. Chesterton1 quote
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton · 1921George Eliot1 quote
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. — George Eliot · 1866George Moore1 quote
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. — George Moore · 1916Gustave Flaubert1 quote
See many skies and seas. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857Horace1 quote
Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BCJoachim du Bellay1 quote
Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558Kenneth Grahame1 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 · 1908Laurence Sterne1 quote
A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad. — Laurence Sterne · 1765Lord Chesterfield1 quote
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so. — Lord Chesterfield · 1747Marcel Proust1 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 · 1922Oliver Goldsmith1 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 · 1761Rudyard Kipling1 quote
They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam! — Rudyard Kipling · 1895Ryan Bingham1 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 · 2009Samuel Johnson1 quote
So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. — Samuel Johnson · 1776Soren Kierkegaard1 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 · 1843T.S. Eliot1 quote
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot · 1942