Famous Travel Quotes Part – 17

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We’ve traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

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What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

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What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

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What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets?

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When I was at home, I was in a better place, but travelers must be content.

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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.- Edward Dahlberg

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When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.- Clifton Fadiman

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Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hairbreadth scapes i’ th’ imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence And portance in my travels’ history; Wherein of anters vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hill whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak–such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.

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Wherever we’ve travelled in this great land of ours, we’ve found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

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While armchair travellers dream of going places, travelling armchairs dream of staying put.

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With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

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Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.- Frank Herbert

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Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.- Samuel Johnson

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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

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You can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are

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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

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You lose sight of things…and when you travel, everything balances out.


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