The traveller sees what he sees, the tripper sees what he has come to see.
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.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
* * * and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds.
In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.
When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
Travell'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
For always roaming with a hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known.
Does the pilgrim count the miles
When he travels to some distant shrine?
'Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes
I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.