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Here is a word of advice — see the world. Travel abroad and seek some kindly educated animal to teach you, for though this garden is one of extreme beauty, your mind will ne’er be broadened and developed by resting peacefully at home. ~Livingston Welch, A Victim of Rest, 1924 [Mr. Boa to Eve —tg]
A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. ~Henry Rollins
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France
These are the joys of the open road —
For him who travels without a load.
~Bliss Carman, "The Joys of the Road," Songs from Vagabondia, 1894
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~Seneca
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 "sight-seeing." ~Daniel J. Boorstin
It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do — especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
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. ~G.K. Chesterton
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
Travel ought to combine amusement with instruction; but most travellers are so much amused that they refuse to be instructed. ~G.K. Chesterton, "What Is America?", What I Saw in America, 1922
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. ~Regina Nadelson
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. ~Lillian Smith
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~Ray Bradbury
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~Orson Welles
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. ~Terry Hanson
We did the city, we did the stores, we did the bar-rooms, and did sundry drinks with divers people. ~John Keast Lord, 1860 May 15th [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958
In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. ~Dave Barry
...crossing and recrossing the country every year, south in the winter and north in the summer and only because he has no place he can stay in without getting tired of it and because there's nowhere to go but everywhere, and keep rolling under the stars... ~Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), On the Road
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. ~George Winters
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~G.K. Chesterton
There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook. ~Author Unknown
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. ~George Ade, Forty Modern Fables
I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978
Try the great open road — you may meet God. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw
To pitch my tent with no prosy plan,
To range and to change at will;
To mock at the mastership of man,
To seek Adventure's thrill.
~Robert W. Service (1874–1958), "A Rolling Stone," 1912
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. ~Lemony Snicket
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley
Says I, "Then let's be on the float; you certainly have got my goat;
You make me hungry in my throat for seeing things that's new.
Out ere somewhere we'll ride the range a-looking for the new and strange;
My feet are tired and need a change. Come on! It's up to you!
~Henry Herbert Knibbs (1874–1945), "Out There Somewhere"
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.K. Chesterton
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc
I was meant to hike for the hiking's sake.... We'd go and go. No limit…And we wouldn't just go places, either; we'd be different things. We'd be Connecticut farmers one year, and run a mine in Mexico the next, and loaf in Paris the next, if we had the money. ~Sinclair Lewis, The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, 1915
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli
And then that slim, poetic guy, turned and looked me in the eye:
"…It's overland and overland and overseas to — where?"
"Most anywhere that isn't here," I says. His face went kind of queer:
The place we're in is always here. The other place is there."
~Henry Herbert Knibbs (1874–1945), "Out There Somewhere"
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
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