Travellers Quotes

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

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

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

Edward Streeter

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.

Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

George Santayana

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

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

Mordecai Richler

(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

Anonymous

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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

Alexander Chase

My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

G.K. Chesterton

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

English Proverb

The journey is the reward.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

Christian Morgenstern

I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.

George S. Kaufman

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

William Shakespeare

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Henry David Thoreau

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

Anonymous

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.

Anonymous

Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

John Rusk

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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