Travel Quotes
Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Dejan Stojanovic and Ray Bradbury lead the page. The line that rewards a second look is Chesterton’s, in Tremendous Trifles (1909): the whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land but at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest (1895) has a character who never travels without her diary, so that she has something sensational to read on the train.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. Swift wrote something close to it in 1710, that falsehood flies and truth comes limping after. A rolling stone gathering no moss, credited to Publilius Syrus, is disputed.
All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded.
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.