Travel Quotes

“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”

“When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.”

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,That dying chose the living world for textAnd never could have rested in the tombBut that, long travelling, he had comeTowards nightfall upon certain set apartIn a most desolate stony place.”

“If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.”

“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.”

“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

“Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.”

“The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back”

“Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country”

“I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.”

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”

“Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”

“My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.”

“Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.”

“First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.”

“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”

“I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.”

“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”

“In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.”

“I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.”

“Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.”

“Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night”

“During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.”

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”