Travel Quotes

“I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands.”

“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.”

“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”

“I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.”

“No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.”

“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”

“My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.”

“What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America”

“While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.”

“A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.”

“I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”

“Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.”

“We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.”

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

“Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.”

“How do you get off a non-stop flight?”

“If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?”

“I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.”

“Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.”

“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”

“So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.”

“When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.”