Travel Quotes

My Favorite Travel Quotes

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

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.
~Louis L'Amour

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
~Charles Horton Cooley

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.
~Mark Twain

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
~Caskie Stinnett

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
~George Bernard Shaw

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

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The Lighter Side of Travel

I have a map of the United States - it's actual size.
~Steven Wright

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
~Erma Bombeck

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

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”
~George Carlin

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.
~Will Kommen

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
~Paul Theroux

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.
~Dave Barry

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
~Russell Baker

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
~Steven Wright

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.
~W.C.Sellar & R.J.Yeatman

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
~Charles Kuralt

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
~Dagobert D. Runes

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
~Steven Wright

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
~Ernest Hemingway

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
~Russell Baker

The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.
~Mark Twain

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

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
~Steven Wright

Knock Knock! Who’s there? Tibet! Tibet who? Early Tibet and early to rise!
~Aha Jokes

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
~Unknown

When travelling w/ someone, take large doses of patience & tolerance w/ your morning coffee.
~Helen Hayes

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
~Henny Youngman

Travel Tips and Tricks

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
~Susan Heller

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
~George Ade, Forty Modern Fables

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.
~Lemony Snicket

The Lure of Adventure: Why We Travel

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

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

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
~Aldous Huxley

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
~Diane von Furstenberg

The Accidental Tourist

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton

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 Road to Hana is not a destination, it's a journey.
~Maui, Hawaii Guidebook

Family Vacations

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

Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
~George Winters

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
~Orson Welles

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
~Theo Cowan

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
~Steven Wright

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

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
~G.K. Chesterton

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.
~Dave Barry

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 had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
~Steven Wright

End of the Journey

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
~Lin Yutang

I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why? Those are all places that I love to go to cause it feels good to me personally when I'm there.
~Steve Perry, Journey

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