Quotes

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

— Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

— The Dhammapada

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

— Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post

Certainly, 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

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

— Henry J. Tillman

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

— George Moore

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 (1904 - 1999)

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

— Charles Kuralt

He who would travel happily must travel light.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

Syndicate content