Travel Quotes

  • The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
    ~ G. K. Chesterton
  • It is not down in any map; true places never are.
    ~ Herman Melville
  • The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing.
    ~ Daniel Joseph Boorstin
  • Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
    ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
    ~ Lin Yutang
  • Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
    ~ Anatole France
  • I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
    ~ Lord Dunsany
  • Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
    ~ Charles Kuralt
  • When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
    ~ Susan Heller
  • I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.I travel for travel's sake.The great affair is to move.
    ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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