Travel Quotes

Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are made of dirt.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

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 diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes.
But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.

Q: What's your best travel advice to those who are taking a vacation for the first time in their lives?
A: Whenever possible, avoid airlines which have anyone's first name in their titles, like Bob's International Airline, or Air Fred.