Travel Quotes

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~ St. Augustine

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"He who would travel happily must travel light." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~ George Moore

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"A good traveller has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going." ~ Paul Theroux

"Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating." ~ Michael Crichton

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain

". . .life is short and the world is wide" ~ Simon Raven

"Certainly travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." ~ Miriam Beard

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost" ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds." ~ Caleb Colton

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware." ~ Martin Buber

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." ~ Maya Angelou