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Quotes for Travelers


I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. Susan Sontag

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Bill Bryson

One should count each day a separate life.
--Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
--Augustine (354-430)

Not all those who wander are lost!
--J.R.R. Tolkien

"My escapade had given me, as well as a lot of exotic experiences, the rather primitive pleasure which you get from facing dangers and overcoming difficulties."  Andre Migot in Tibetan Marches

One look is worth a thousand rumors.
--
Wen Hou, Warring States Period

I love to travel, But hate to arrive
--Albert Einstein

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
--Henry David Thoreau

Two great talkers will not travel far together.
--Spanish Proverb

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck

A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
Nigerian Proverb


He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Vita Sackville-West (1892:C1962), British novelist, poet.
 

"If the traveler expects the highway to be safe and well graded, he might as well stay home."  Charles Kuralt

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. Tolkien

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover Mark Twain