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.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.
One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.
If what the eye sees does not rankle in the heart
Sweet is the flow of life in travel spent.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.