Travel Quotes

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse. Thomas Fuller

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley

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

I have wandered all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. Hilaire Belloc

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth. Mark Twain

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Vita Sackville-West

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see. G K Chesterton

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. Flannery O’Connor

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. Paul Tournier

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux