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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

William Bartram

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

Charles Spurgeon

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

Glenn Tipton

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Robin Leach

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

Ivanka Trump

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Ella Maillart

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

John Muir

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

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

Saint Augustine

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Nelson Algren

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Truman Capote

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Danny Kaye

Paris is always a good idea.

Audrey Hepburn

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.

Jerry Spinelli

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

Anais Nin

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sophie Swetchine

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Amy Grant

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Aristophanes

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Edmund Burke

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Michael Palin

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Frank Borman

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

George Borrow

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

Martin Buber

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Ramakrishna

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Helen Hayes

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Raymond Floyd

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Christopher Hitchens

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Wallis Simpson

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

George Carlin

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Will Steger

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Shakuntala Devi

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Lin Yutang

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Dan Rather

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

George A. Moore

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lin Yutang

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Giotto di Bondone

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag

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

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Troy Gentile

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

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

Laurel Clark

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Guy Clark

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

Jules Verne

You get educated by traveling.

Solange Knowles

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

John D. Rockefeller

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Martin Yan

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

William Blake

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Frances Burney

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

Satchel Paige

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Al Gore

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Henny Youngman

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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 never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.

Hope Jahren

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Hans Christian Andersen

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

Robert Irvine

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Buddha

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Charles Kuralt