Travel Quotes

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefelle

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Joe Schwartz

No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.

Ben Gaye, III

If you hear a different drummer - - Dreamer, take a chance... The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

D. Morgan

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew

Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Muhammed Ali, in a television interview

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

George Santayana

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Thorstein Veblen

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stephenson

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Eric Hoffe

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

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

Saint Augustine

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Emerson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly, 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

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Prove

Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso