Travel Quotes |
"If you wish to
travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your
envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and
fears." -Glenn Clark "Eat dessert first, Life is uncertain" -Anonymous "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." -Robert Louis Stevenson "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." -Yogi Berra "Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep." -A.E. Housman 1859-1936: A Shropshire Lad "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 "To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." -Freya Stark "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality.. -Samuel Johnson "Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure." -Aldous Huxley "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust "I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart." -Colette " the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself." -William Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon) A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours." -J. B. Priestley "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." -Mark Twain "He who does not travel does not know the value of men." -Moorish proverb "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller "Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death." -Pascal, Pensées "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 "Internal burning . . . wandering fever . . ." -Kalevala "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 "Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns." -Paul Fussell "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." -Anatole France "When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. . ." -D. H. Lawrence ". . .life is short and the world is wide" -Simon Raven "Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" -Lisa St. Aubin de Teran ". . .the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home." -Paul Theroux "All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time." -Paul Fussell "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." -Aldous Huxley "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad" -George Bernard Shaw ". . .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 "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." -Caskie Stinnett "We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment." -Hilaire Belloc Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." -Jack Kerouac "When you are
everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you
are everywhere." -Rumi Thanks Michael Tierney |
This is Vegas Baby Farewell Sydney Los Angeles San Francisco Folsom Street Fair San Diego Yosemite NP Tijuana Grand Canyon Joshua Tree Forrest