Quotes
Quotes about Travel
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
Thy pardon, Father, I beseech,
In this my prayer if I offend;
One something sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journey's end.
My wife, our little boy Aignan,
Have travelled even to Narbonne;
My grandchild has seen Perpignan;
And I--have not seen Carcassonne.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
I got the idea that wherever you went all that would matter would be the people, and they seem to be all pretty much the same. I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same. I tell you that now, so you've no need to waste your money on travelling.
The flow of time means nothing in itself, and yet, in ordinary life, we are forced to travel along it
I have travelled in books ... I have read of matters higher than where castles may be and whence a gentleman's name may come
Better to travel in hope than to arrive at hope's fulfillment
I was travelling back to the origin of it all, my back turned for the moment to a future I did not care to think about
We are loyal only to our mothers. We strive for the new but cannot attain it. We travel a circle. We want to get back
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
The Man who never in his Mind and Thoughts travel'd to Heaven is No Artist.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
