A car can massage organs which no
masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the
disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
— Jean Cocteau
The
fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here — but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
— Edna St. Vincent
Millay
Travel is glamorous only in
retrospect.
— Paul Theroux
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The modern American tourist now fills
his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to
expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than
the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that
he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and
all the thrills of risking his life without any real
risk at all.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Travel
is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater
bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want
to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
— Vita Sackville-West
Travellers never think that THEY are
the foreigners.
— Mason Cooley
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
— William Wordsworth
In America there are two classes of
travel- first class and with childen.
— Robert Benchley
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our
first journeys discover to us the indifference of
places.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To travel hopefully is a better thing
than to arrive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Life on board a pleasure steamer
violates every moral and physical condition of healthy
life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling,
lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to
excitement is irritability.
— George Bernard Shaw
An involuntary return to the point of
departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all
journeys.
— Iain Sinclair
I never travel without my diary. One
should always have something sensational to read in the
train.
— Oscar Wilde
In Paris they simply stared when I
spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making
those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark
Twain Quotes
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?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extensive traveling induces a
feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at
first, contracts the mind.
— Paul Theroux, U.S. novelist, travel writer. The Great
Railway Bazaar
A journey is like marriage. The
certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
— John Steinbeck
For my part, I travel not to go
anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The
great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches
of our life more nearly; to come down off this
feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite
underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A part, a large part, of travelling
is an engagement of the ego v. the world. . . . The
world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as
changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways.
The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on
time.
— Sybille Bedford (b. 1911), British author. "The
Quality of Travel," in Esquire (New York, Nov. 1961;
repr. in As It Was, 1990).
A man who leaves home to mend
himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes
from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of
curiosity, is a vagabond.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The
time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks
after you unpack.
— George Ade
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who
would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry
the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in
travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he
would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
The tourist who moves about to see
and hear and open himself to all the influences of the
places which condense centuries of human greatness is
only a man in search of excellence.
— Max Lerner
Though there are some disagreeable
things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as
the visitors.
— Henry James
I am leaving the town to the
invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly
behaved, shameless tourists.
— Brigitte Bardot (b. 1933), French screen actor.
Quoted in: International Herald Tribune (Paris, 10 Aug.
1989), on leaving her home at Saint Tropez.
For the perfect idler, for the
passionate observer it becomes an immense source of
enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in
the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the
infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home
anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of
the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are
some of the minor pleasures of those independent,
intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend
themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The
observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he
goes.
— Charles Baudelaire
The idea that seeing life means
going from place to place and doing a great variety of
obvious things is an illusion natural to dull
minds.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Should we have stayed at home and
thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in this strangest of theatres?
— Elizabeth Bishop
The
American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he
has culled from a conversational guide or picked up
from a friend who owns a beret.
— Fred Allen
Henceforth I whimper no more,
postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous
criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
— Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Modern tourist guides have helped
raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the
natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of
Chichacestenango- with a detailed and itemized list of
what is expected of them and when. These are the
up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists'
stage.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty
gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
— Bob Dylan
As for pictures and museums, that
don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that
you've always got to look at things of that sort. To
have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
— Margaret Oliphant
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 diarrhoea and bites from the
mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be
expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
— Lord Byron
I was disappointed in Niagara- most
people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American
bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous
waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the
keenest, disappointments in American married life.
— Oscar Wilde
We travellers are in very hard
circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said
before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we
tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and
romantic.
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
In the middle ages people were
tourists because of their religion, whereas now they
are tourists because tourism is their religion.
— Robert Runcie
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."
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
When one realizes that his life is
worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
— Edward Dahlberg
Writing and travel broaden your ass
if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
— Ernest Hemingway
