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.
A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.
I'm a flying bishop, like the Heavenly Father, often I am on travel.
You want to have kids, you want to be a director, you want to travel the world—what do you do first?
The writer makes people travel through his texts, making them happy.
Onward onward! must we travel?
When will come the goal?
Riddle I may not unravel,
Cease to vex my soul.