Thursday, November 17, 2011

My TRAVEL Quotes Collection

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine


“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson


“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb


“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes


“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck


“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang



“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

“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

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“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

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“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

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“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

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

“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

“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

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money".

"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage". --Regina Nadelson

"When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back." --W.C.Sellar & R.J.Yeatman.

"A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car." --Emile Ganest

"'Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in the mid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity." --George Mikes.

"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers." --George Carlin

"To travel is to possess the world". --Burton Holmes

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist". --Russell Baker

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled."  --Mohammed

"Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station". --Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

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

“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.”  --Anne Sophie Swetchine 

”A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”































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