519 quotes found
“Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are”
“It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
“One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.”
“The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.”
“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.”
“A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'”
“Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”
“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 with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would...”
“Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.”
“For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.”
“Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a ...”
“When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
“Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.”
“(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.”
