Famous Quotations re: Travel

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. St. Augustine

...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 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. Tim Cahill

Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you'll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you're away...One's little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there. Gail Rubin Bereny

Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries. René Descartes

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight seeing". Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander! Brähmann

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything. Bill Bryson

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Sir Richard Burton

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. Lord Byron

Embrace the detours. Kevin Charbonneau The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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