Travel Quotes and Sayings

My favorite quotes and sayings that inspire me to go and see the world

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• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

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

• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

~We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin

• “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

 

~The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

~Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Chief Joseph

• “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

 

~Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan Sontag

• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

 

~Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli

• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

 

~“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

• “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

 

~“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

• “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France

~“Not all those who wander are lost.” –J. R. R. Tolkien

• “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

~“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

 

~“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

~“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

~“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” –Jawaharial Nehru

 

~“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

• “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

 

~“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” –Freya Stark

 

~“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

 

• “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

 

~“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

• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

 

~“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” –Russell Baker

 

 

• “Knock Knock! Who’s there? Tibet! Tibet who? Early Tibet and early to rise!” – Aha Jokes

 

 

 

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