Travel Quotes

"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Mark Twain

"He that travels much knows much."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Your feet will bring you to where your heart is."
-Irish Proverb

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

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."
-Thomas Hood

"I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them."
-Peta Wilson

"A traveller without observation is a bird without wings."
-Muslih uddin Sadi

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
-Shirley MacLaine

"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."
-Japanese Proverb

"One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green."
-John Gunther

"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

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
-Mother Jones

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

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

"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

"Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water."
-David Letterman

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."
-Amelia E. Barr

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
-Hilaire Belloc

"[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant."
-Jan Morris

"Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief."
-Henry Tuckerman

"The saying 'Getting there is half the fun' became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."
-Henry J. Tillman

"Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye."
-Cynthia Ozick

"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
-Nikos Kazantzakis

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
-Lawrence Durrell

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

"Travel is only glamorous in retrospect."
-Paul Theroux