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.
“Servants don’t travel with their employers.”
“How do they do without them?”
”They don’t.”
Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
"Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them...."
When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan I took interest and had a desire to travel there.