TRAVEL QUOTES IV

quotations about travel

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

LAO TZU

attributed, A Kind of Knowing

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A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Travels with a donkey in the Cevenne

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Of course, even foreign places grow familiar given enough time; even novelty grows old. Some would argue that this is what makes travel pointless. And in a sense, it's true--childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.

WENDY DALE

Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals


Travel is theater: It invites us to extend our boundaries and to "play" new roles. Is that you sipping ouzo, singing fado, tasting eel, donning a caftan, riding a donkey, boarding a helicopter, ogling a kilt?

MARTY LESHNER

Cruise Travel, October 2004


People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country.

ANATOLE BROYARD

attributed, Voyages of Discovery


Every mile you travel, is like the one left behind.

LES HUGHES

A Young Australian Pioneer


When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It

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The good thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places. The bad thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places.

DIANE

attributed, Sleepless in America


To embargo travel is like burning books or imprisoning journalists.

LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD

New York Times, July 13, 1994


To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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To travel is to live.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

The Fairy Tale of My Life

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Travelling enlarges our views, gives us a knowledge of men and manners, causes us to embrace the human race, as one great family, and call every child of misfortune our brother. The man who fell among thieves would have died of his wounds had not the good Samaritan been a traveller.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things


We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

PICO IYER

"Why We Travel"


All our journeys are rhapsodies on the theme of discovery. We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart. The bittersweet truth about travel is embedded in the word, which derives from the older word travail, itself rooted in the Latin tripalium, a medieval torture rack.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


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

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristics, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

ARNOLD BENNETT

attributed, Voyages of Discovery

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Letters from a Citizen of the World

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