Travel

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sightseeing."”

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

“I depart,When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.”

“In travellingAnd take fools' pleasure.”

“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

“Go far—too far you cannot, still the fartherThe more you look through still.”

“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.”

“The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

“Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.”

“As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”

“Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.”

“Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.”

“When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.”

“And in his brain,In mangled forms.”

“The sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”

“Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.”

“Travell'd gallants,That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.”

“I spake of most disastr'us chances,And of the cannibals that each other eat.”

“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”

“I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.”

“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”

“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.”

“The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.”

“Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”

“He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.”

“One who journeyingAnd stops and turns, and measures back his way.”

“I am fevered with the sunset, And my soul is in Cathay.”

“The wonders of each region view,From frozen Lapland to Peru.”

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

“Let observation with extensive view,And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.”

“Follow the Romany PatteranSweeping the sea floors white.”

“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

“The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.”

“Better sit still where born, I say,On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.”

“We sack, we ransack to the utmost sandsWe progress, and we prog from pole to pole.”

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? From morn to night, my friend.”

“I think it was Jekyll who used to say that the further he went west, the more convinced he felt that the wise men came from the east.”

“'Tis nothing when a fancied scene's in viewTo skip from Covent Garden to Peru.”

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'Tis all barren!"”

“'Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnesI travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.”

“Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.”

“For always roaming with a hungry heart,Much have I seen and known.”

“All human race from China to Peru,Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.”

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"Sitting amid their ruins.”