1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
2. “The world is a
book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
3. “There are no
foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert
Louis Stevenson
4. “The use of
traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how
things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
5. “All the pathos and
irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of
travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise
traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
6. “Our battered
suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no
matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
7. “He who does not
travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
8. “People travel to
faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at
home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
9. “A journey is like
marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –John Steinbeck
10. “No one realizes
how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his
old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
11. “Your true
traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his
liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not
merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
12. “All travel has
its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to
improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy
it.” – Samuel
Johnson
13. “For 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
14. “Traveling is a
brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that
familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing
is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky –
all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
15. “One’s destination
is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
16″A traveler without
observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin
Saadi
17. “When we get out
of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the
cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with
cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence
18. “To awaken quite
alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
19. “Twenty years from
now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
20. “Travel is more
than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in
the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
21. “All journeys have
secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
22. “We live in a
wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to
the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial
Nehru
23. “Tourists don’t
know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
24. “To my mind, the
greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday
things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is
so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
25. “Do not follow
where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph
Waldo Emerson
26. “Two roads
diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
27. “A journey of a
thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao
Tzu
28. “There is no
moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles
Dudley Warner
29. “A good traveler
has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao
Tzu
30. “If you reject the
food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might
better stay at home.” – James Michener
32. “A journey is best
measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
33. “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
34. “Once you have
traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the
quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“A journey of a
thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
35. “Not all those who
wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
36. “Like all great
travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have
seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
37. “Perhaps travel
cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat,
worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each
other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
38. “Too often travel,
instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” –Elizabeth Drew
39. “Wandering
re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the
universe”……Anatole
France
41. “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
42. “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
44. “Travel does what
good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a
frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more
clear.
47. “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
48. “When you travel,
remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is
designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton
Fadiman
50. “Adventure is a
path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces
you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not
the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear
witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless
kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you
yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be
black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
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