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Travel41 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — JuvenalSee many skies and seas. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857The 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 · 1922There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558All 41 quotes →Tourism5 quotes
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 · 1843Those 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 · 1747What 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 · 1991The 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 · 1962It 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 · 1925Effects of travel3 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558Some minds improve by travel, others, rather
Resemble copper wire, or brass,
Which gets the narrower by going farther! — Thomas Hood · 1845Learning from travel3 quotes
So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. — Samuel Johnson · 1776When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625Some minds improve by travel, others, rather
Resemble copper wire, or brass,
Which gets the narrower by going farther! — Thomas Hood · 1845One's native land3 quotes
I traveled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee. — William Wordsworth · 1807Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad. — Laurence Sterne · 1765Purpose of travel2 quotes
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822For 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 · 1879Wandering2 quotes
Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BCA 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 · 1761Adventure1 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 · 1908Airports1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988America1 quote
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. — Charles Kuralt · 1990Architecture1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Beginning of a journey1 quote
My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Broadening one's horizons1 quote
See many skies and seas. — Gustave Flaubert · 1857Creativity1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Curiosity1 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 · 1942Different perspectives1 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 · 1922Discovery1 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 · 1922Empathy1 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 · 1922End of a journey1 quote
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know. — William Shakespeare · 1602Existential solitude1 quote
We 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 · 1879Expatriates1 quote
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. — George Eliot · 1866Exploration1 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 · 1942Fools1 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 · 1747Foreign countries1 quote
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. — George Eliot · 1866Freedom1 quote
Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BCFriends1 quote
We 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 · 1879Getting to know people1 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 · 1894Imagination1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Inspiration1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Journey vs. destination1 quote
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881