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.
I am obsessed with the idea of leaving. I must travel, for that would probably relax me.
May those who are born after me
Never travel such roads of love.
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.
Traveling through different countries and communicating with different peoples makes men wise.
“Be true to who you are on your own journey. It makes the road less traveled be easier to enjoy”.