| TOP 50 TRAVEL QUOTES

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 traveler 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
"One's destination is never a
place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller
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
31. "The journey not the arrival matters." - T. S. Eliot
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 quiestest 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
40. "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."
- Seneca
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
43. "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about
other countries." - Aldous Huxley
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. Travel does this
with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the
sharp contour and meaning of art." - Freya Stark
45. "The first condition of understanding a foreign country is
to smell it." - Rudyard Kipling
46. "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." - Paul Theroux
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
49. "A wise traveler never despises his own country." - Carlo
Goldoni
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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