quotations about travel
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
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Letters from a Citizen of the World
When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
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
To travel is to live.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The Fairy Tale of My Life
Every mile you travel, is like the one left behind.
LES HUGHES
A Young Australian Pioneer
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
LAO TZU
attributed, A Kind of Knowing
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
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
SAADI
attributed, Day's Collacon
To embargo travel is like burning books or imprisoning journalists.
LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD
New York Times, July 13, 1994
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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
I think especially in the jet age that the right to travel is a civil right and a human right which, except for health reasons, ought not to be restricted in any way. Why does the State Department have the right to issue passports? We are citizens. Not subjects.
SHANA ALEXANDER
"The Real Tourist Trap", Life, January 26, 1968
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"
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 like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country.
ANATOLE BROYARD
attributed, Voyages of Discovery
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
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
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Left Hand of Darkness
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
It is but to be able to say that they have been to such a place, or have seen such a thing, that, more than any real taste for it, induces the majority of the world to incur the trouble and fatigue of travelling.
FREDERICK MARRYAT
A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions