Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Mary Wortley Montagu

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Martha Gellhorn

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Mark Haddon

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Marion Cotillard

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

Paul Goodman

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Paul Anka

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

Neil Young

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

John Ashbery

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

Jodi Picoult

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Mary Ritter Beard

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Mary Roach

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Mary Cassatt

World will suffice for me in the future.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Mark Twain

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Mark Twain

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Mark Twain

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Mark Twain

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Mark Twain

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Madonna Ciccone

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

Madonna Ciccone

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

Ma Jian

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Louis L'Amour

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Margaret Oliphant

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Margaret Oliphant

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Michel de Montaigne

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

Mark Twain

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Mark Twain

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Mark Twain

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.