519 quotes found
“All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.”
“(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.”
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.”
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
“Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.”
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
“Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.”
“One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.”
“The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.”
“The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.”
“The journey is the reward.”
“The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.”
“There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.”
“I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.”
“When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.”
“I have travelled a good deal in Concord.”
“A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'”
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”
“The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.”
“Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”