Favorite Travel Sayings
 

Here's mine:

Breakfast in Paris;

Lunch in New York;

Dinner in San Francisco;

Luggage in Buenos Aires.

"Take half as much luggage and twice as much money as you planned"

"Now boarding flight 123 to XYZ"

That is the beginning of voyage that I have planned for lovingly. I am so excited to begin the journey!

The most important thing to remember to bring is your sense of humor.

I don't know that this is an official saying, but it should be:

If you want everything to be like home, STAY home!

Ha! My old boss always told us: "What goes on on the road stays on the road", which normally was right before we had a whole lot of fun! One time when his wife over the phone asked him what his evening plans were he said "Just hang out in the stupid room I guess" - he then promptly hung up the phone and joined the rest of us in the hotel bar for the night - after that we always called the lounge or bar the Stupid Room!

He died several years ago of a heart attack, we sure do miss him!

"Les voyages forment la jeunesse". I can still hear my mother said it when she bought me my first trip to Paris after my graduation.

I also like "Heureux qui comme Ulysse a fait un long voyage"

My favorite is an announcement I heard years ago in the Detroit airport:
"Mr. XXX (don't remember the name), your party has caught a taxi and gone home."

Wherever and whenever we're lost, DH and I look at each other and shout, "After all, it's an ADVENTURE!!"

From Baedeker,

"There is little here to detain the casual visitor".

((I))

I don't recall where I heard this, it may even have been on this board, but I loved it the minute I read it...

"I want to go everywhere I've never been". ;)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

"Mad dogs and Englismen go out in the mid day sun."

"But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?"

Both by Noel Coward

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

From the slowtrav.com web site...

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

And so true:

The following are favorites




...travel is more than the seeing ofsights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Miriam Beard

Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you'll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you're away...One's little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.

Gail Rubin Bereny



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 J. Boorstin





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 eveything.

Bill Bryson

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Sir Richard Burton














But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Noel Coward


The journey not the arrival matters.

T. S. Eliot

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman












Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson


If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

James A. Michener


Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Fitzhugh Mllan




We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru









I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag








Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Anne Sophie Swetchine


A traveller. I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us.

It is a great art to saunter.

Henry David Thoreau

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

Gertrude Stein

(paraphrase)

"What if when we get there the there is not there anymore?"

You will find something new, unexpected
PalBob.
It reminds me of one trip, we were flanuers on the road and thought we were stuck in a traffic jam. We ended up on a fairy boat. Loved every minute because we had no plans.

Good ones.
But my favorite is when my husband says, "do you have everything? The cab is here."

Do not tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.

- Mohammed

"A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey...
...And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices..."

from "Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!

Good one, Peg! :)

On a less cynical note,from Tennyson:

I cannot rest from travel;I will drink
Life to the lees.

Oh, that last one was from Tennyson's poem "Ulysses." Now there was a traveler!

Tourism will destroy what it is looking for by finding it.

This is a poem rather than a quote, but I thought it was fitting here. It's a favorite of mine.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

And it's by one of our locals, Robert Frost.

I love that poem by Frost!

Here is one that someone from this forum shared with me recently. I love it, too:

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lc, I "ädopted" that on another forum once but wrote it:
You Can't find beauty unless you bring it with you.
And I wrote, you can't be loved unless you are loveable.

Yes, cigalechanta! If only more people would realize the truth of both of those expressions!

No matter where you go, there you are.

- Buckaroo Banzai

:-)

Lee Ann

Not all who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkein

"He who is tired of London, is tired of life"

"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth/
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,--and done a hundred things/
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung/
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,/
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung/
My eager craft through footless falls of air.../
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue/
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace/
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew--/
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod/
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,/
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

((I))

I met a lot of people when I travelled. I even encountered myself.

James Baldwin

To not ever travel is to only read the first page of a book.

Saint Augustin

'Take only photographs, leave only footprints'

"You can't get there from here"

Due to the beautiful ceilings in many churches, chateau and the like, ours is:

"always look UP!"

From "The Yearling"

"I don't know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to."