Travel Quotes

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.
Ben Gaye, III
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
Alexander solzhenitsyn - own only what you can carry with you know...
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.
The Dhammapada
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
French Prove
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Helle
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.
Mark Twain
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Elizabeth drew - travel, instead of broadening the mind, often...
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefelle
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
George Santayana
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.
Kin Hubbard
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.
Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
C. V. R. Thompson
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
Mark Twain
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
Henry David Thoreau
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Emerson
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
Stanislaw Lec
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.
Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917