Travel Quotes

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When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee
Helen Hayes

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place. [Except when they got there they weren't Americans]
Otto Friedrich

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
Czeslaw Milosz

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Lin Yutang

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
André Gide

When the prime minister goes to an EU summit he travels in a fast car and then in a plane.
Nick Robinson

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.
David Letterman

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
James Boswell

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. [As true today as ever]
Hernando Cortez

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
Lewis Mumford

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
Roy Clark

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, travelling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen.
Paul Crouch

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli

A wise traveller never despises his own country
Carlo Goldoni

You realise when you travel how truly isolated some places are, and how different they are from each other.
John Geary

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

They travel with a constant companion, autumn.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The King in a carriage may ride,
And the Beggar may crawl at his side;
But in the general race,
They are traveling all the same pace
Edward Fitzgerald

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
Bruce Campbell

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
John Muir

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase

The traveller without money will sing before the robber
Juvenal

Little by little, one travels far.
J R R Tolkien

Travellers never think that they are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley

Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux

Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveller, and piss.
Lord Byron

David Beckham's not going to be travelling in economy with a little kid in front of him!
Bobby Convey

My players travel more than Phileas Fogg in Around The World In Eighty Days
Rafael Benitez

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Mary Wortley Montagu

He travels best that knows when to return.
Sir Thomas More

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D Rockefeller

I was definitely living fast. I was working, travelling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
Kate Moss

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings

Travelling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't travel around the world with a school class, I'm not a school-teacher or the father of a Sunday School.
Sven Goran Eriksson

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by. (1916)
Robert Frost

'So far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distance travelled in equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd number beginning with 1'.
Galileo Galilei

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.
Susan Sontag

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
Mark Caine

I am maintaining my schedule of being a commuter to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session travelling to communities throughout my district.
Greg Walden

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

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
Al Gore

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveller than the road.
Marian Zimmer Bradley

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

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



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