In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in
a developed country, don't breathe the air.
- Changing Times Magazine
One of the great astonishments of my life has been the
discovery that actually you don't need money to travel. You need enough credentials to
get paid to travel.
— Gregg Levoy
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, "I would stay and love you, but I
have to go; this is my station."
- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in
Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the
earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
- Oscar Wilde
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
- Ernest Hemingway
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.
— Dogen
When you get there, there is not there there. But there will be a
pool.
- David Zucker
A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.
- Benjamin Franklin
To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country
is not designed to make you comfortable. It's designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Cliftonn Fadiman
Whenever possible, avoid airlines which have anyone's first name in their
titles, like Bob's International Airline or Air Fred.
- Miss Piggy
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.
— St. Augustine
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I
am.
— Voltaire
Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful,
you must have it within you or you will find it not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you look like your
passport photo, you're too ill to travel.
- Will Kommen
The dumbest criminal on earth is the one who would hold up a group of tourists on their way home from
Las Vegas
after their first encounter with casinos.
- Unknown wise person
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
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
— Buddha
The great difference between voyages rests ot in ships but in the people
you meet on them.
— Amelia Burr
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
- George Bernard Shaw
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel]
reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to
sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local
jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.
- Art Buchwald
Never trust anything you read in a travel article.
Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related
industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T
BOTHER.
- Dave Barry
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
- Buddha
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in.
Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
-
Joseph Joubert
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great
sympathetic nervous system.
- Jean Cocteau
Visits always give pleasure: if not in the arrival, then
on the departure.
- Edward Le Berquier
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to
coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt
The two best things about traveling are arriving in a
new city and leaving it
- Unknown world traveler
I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a
seashell.
- Erma Bombeck
The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets.
Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out
of countinence
- P. J. O'Rourke
One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world
where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United
States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he
said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."
- Quentin Crisp
One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I
want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they
were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.
- Helen Rich
Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game.
Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"
- Rita Rudner
Own only what you can always carry with you; know
languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under
your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook 'cause you'll be looking for
your sock.
- Ping Bodie
Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me
empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone
sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."
- Carol Leifer
Dress impressively like the French, speak with authority like the Germans, have blond
hair like the Scandinavians, and speak of no American presidents except, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and
Kennedy.
- Sylvaine Rouy Neves
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in
their lives.
- Erma Bombeck
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely
lenghtens the conversation.
- Elizabeth Drew
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come
to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to
believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life
without any real risk at all.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no
looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
- Fanny Burney, English novelist
The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more
strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a
lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at
all.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here- but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
- Leigh Hunt
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no
greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
- Vita Sackville-West
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the
disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
- Jean Cocteau
Be the hero of your adventure. All travel is inner travel, because wherever we are, we
are processing our experiences internally. Remind yourself that you are the hero of all your journeys, and
that all your travel in the outside world is really travel inward, toward ever higher spiritual
consciousness.
- Joseph Dispenza (author of The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of
Self-Discovery)
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
The longer you travel to view an eclipse, the greater the chance of cloud cover.
- Unknown wise person
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of
places.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is
this - we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
- Hilaire Belloc
In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with childen.
- Robert Benchley
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the
most disturbing of all journeys.
- Iain Sinclair
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they
are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For
the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts
the mind.
- Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's
sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off
this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. . . . The world is hydra
headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to
arrive at places safely and on time.
- Sybille Bedford, The Quality of Travel
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
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of
the Indies with him." So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home
knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which
condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
- Max Lerner
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so
disagreeable as the visitors.
- Henry James
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless
tourists.
- Brigitte Bardot (b. 1933), French screen actor. Quoted in: International Herald Tribune (Paris, 10 Aug.
1989), on leaving her home at Saint Tropez.
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to
establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be
away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world,
and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and
impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince
enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.
- Charles Baudelaire
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for
there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian engineer, painter, and sculptor.
The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.
— Gunter's Second Law of Air Travel
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is
an illusion natural to dull minds.
- Charles Horton Cooley
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in this strangest of theatres?
- Elizabeth Bishop
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or
picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
- Fred Allen
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from
Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what
is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
- Bob Dylan
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got
to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
- Margaret Oliphant
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and
have got a diarrhoea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks
that go a pleasuring.
- Lord Byron
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because
tourism is their religion.
- Robert Runcie
