| Author |
Quotes |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. |
| Bible | And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. |
| Goldoni | A wise traveler never despises his own country. |
| Hernando Cortez | He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. |
| Hernando Cortez | I love to travel, But hate to arrive. |
| Louis XV | The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey. |
| Richard Hovey | I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone. |
| Francis Bacon | Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. |
| Horatius Flaccus | 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. |
| Homer | One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way. |
| Samuel Johnson | As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. |
| Samuel Johnson | Let him go abroad to a distant country, let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known. |
| Samuel Johnson | The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. |
| Samuel Johnson | Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru, Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. |
| Thomas Fuller | Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. |
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