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
The strength of the turbulence is directly
proportional to the temperature of your coffee.
— Gunter's Second Law of Air Travel
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
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 French screen actor, Upon 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
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
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