Meaningful Quotes about Traveling A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.—Saadi.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.—Carlo Goldoni. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
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 traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
Your true traveler 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
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – Cesare Pavese
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu.
Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.—Ruskin.
To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a banishment become.—Donne.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—Dr. Johnson.
He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.—Cortes. Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.—Swift. |