Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there - if we travel by my dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right. Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place. It's, uh, just a little bit of uh, Spanish Castle Magic.

Jimi Hendrix

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Jim Morrison

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

Jim Morrison

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

Emmanuelle Beart

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Emma Watson

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

John Hope Franklin

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Ayn Rand

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Bertrand Russell

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every moment is travel - if understood.

Michael Leunig

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Gertrude Stein

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Hans Christian Andersen

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Hans Christian Andersen

To travel is to live.

Giuseppe Verdi

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Horace

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Herman Melville

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Herman Melville

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

Herman Melville

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Herman Melville

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

Herman Melville

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

Herman Melville

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Henry David Thoreau

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Henry David Thoreau

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Henry David Thoreau

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

Henry David Thoreau

Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.