They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
—Colette (1873–1954) French Novelist, Performer
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot (b.1934) French Film Star
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous lives.
—Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian Mystic, Writer
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.
—Michael Palin (b.1943) English Comedian, Actor, Writer, Explorer
Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could find an image of the century of Louis XV in some village in Provence, that of Louis XIV in Poitou, that of even more remote times in the far reaches of Brittany. Most of these cities have fallen from some splendor that historians, more preoccupied with dates than customs, no longer speak of, but whose memory lives on, such as in Brittany, where the national character scarcely accepts the forgetting of what this country is fundamentally about… All of these cities have their primitive character.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
If it’s tourist season, why can’t we kill them?
—Unknown
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
—Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–71) American Author, Critic
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actress, Dancer, Activist
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
—James Thurber
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
—Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–71) American Author, Critic
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination.
—Kathrine Palmer Peterson (1956–2006) American Author of Grief Books
In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
—Frantz Fanon (1925–61) French-Martinique Psychoanalyst, Philosopher
The map is not the territory.
—Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) Polish-American Scientist, Philosopher of Language
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Critic
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs.—They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this—we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) American Journalist, Educator, Author
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey’s fits and starts, rehearses life’s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
—Jonathan Raban (1942–2023) British Writer
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