Travel Quotes

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

“Travelers must be content.”

“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,And so am come abroad to see the world.”

“Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.”

“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”

“Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.”

“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”

“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.”

“Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.”

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

“In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.”

“The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.”

“I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.”

“He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.”

“Traveling is a fool's paradise.”

“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

“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?”

“The world is his who has money to go over it.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”

“Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.”

“'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.”

“Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball”

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”