Travel Quotes

Here is a collection of travel quotes - to inspire and to make you laugh.

"No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow"
- Lin Yutang, Chinese writer and inventor (1895-1976).

"He who would travel happily must travel light"
- French writer Antoine de Saint Exupery

"If there is any road not previously travelled, then that is the one I must take."  
- Australia explorer Edward John Eyre, 1841.

"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation"
- Elizabeth Drew

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"
- St. Augustine

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return."
- Agatha Christie

“There are no foreign lands. It’s only travelers who are foreign.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson -

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything"
- Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

"I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full"
- Lord Dunsany

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving"
- Lao Tzu

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe"
- Anatole France

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind"
- Seneca

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.  The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes "sight-seeing"
- Daniel J. Boorstin

"It is not down in any map; true places never are"
- Herman Melville

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
- Oscar Wilde

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds.  When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then.  People don't have your past to hold against you.  No yesterdays on the road"
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land"
- G.K. Chesterton

"And that's the wonderful thing about family travel:  it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind"
- Dave Barry

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners"
- Mason Cooley

"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage"
- Regina Nadelson

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within"
- Lillian Smith

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness"
- Ray Bradbury

"There are only two emotions in a plane:  boredom and terror"
- Orson Welles

"Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings.  You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye"
- Terry Hanson

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them"
- Mark Twain

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