Great Quotes About Travel
 

Came across this quote when I was doing some research. Wondered if anyone else had a great quote about travel to share.

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

James Michener

"You may have the universe, if I may have Italy."

"Even the little children in Paris speak French."

Mark Twain

"A ship in a safe harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."

William Shedd

"When I went to Venice, my dream became my address."
Marcel Proust

Robert Benchley once arrived in Venice and sent a cable to his editor:
"Streets full of water. Please advise."

Singer/songwriter Elvis Costello once observed:
"They say travel broadens the mind/Till you can't get your head out of doors."

"To Traveleth oh! The light yonder scorchy bird, betwixt the gapping crevice of a gagoyles teeth"

W.shakepseaare ( Heathrow circa 1587 )

Certainly one of my favorites..

mr go - LOL re: Robt. Benchley!

To quote Rick Steves, I like the following;

"If you don't enjoy a place, maybe you don't know enough about it." and "Give a culture the benefit of your open mind. See things different, but not better or worse. Any culture has much to share."

However, I always tell my kids "Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out."

playlad, you made me spew Crystal Lite on my moniter :))

I think Yogi Bara said it best,

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

or

"Traveling is just like going someplace else"

Caio

Greg

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
--Glenn Clark

I'm going to go with a verse from that great song by Sir Noel Coward:

Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel
When the right people stay at home?
What peculiar obsessions
Inspire those processions
Of families from Houston, Tex,
With all those cameras around their necks?
They will take a train
Or an aeroplane
For an hour on the Costa Brava,
And they'll see Pompeii
On the only day
That it's up to its ass in molten lava!
Millions of tourists are churning up the gravel
While they gaze at St. Peter's Dome,
But why oh WHY do the wrong people travel
When the right people stay at home
With all that Kleenex?
When the right people stay at home
And eat hot doughnuts?
When the right people stay at home
With Yogi Berra?!
When the right people stay at home?!?

Great song rjw!!!The writer is sooo right!!

Mary Englebredt(?) "Wherever you go, there you are."

"I fear that the development of the railways will destroy the need for waterproof coats"

~ Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), chemist and manufacturer of waterproof clothing.

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.

-- Mark Twain

(may not be exact quote) Gertrude Stein- "What if when we get there the there isn't there any more?"

"Guy dies and goes right to Heaven where he is given a tour. After looking around awhile he turns to the Host and notes: "Yeah, it is pretty nice but it's not San Francisco!"

Courtesy of the late, great Herb Caen.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. - Mark Twain

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am 58 perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable. -- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. -- Charles Kuralt

Although this is more of a thought than a quote, and I can't remember where I read it, an author once made the remark that the destinations of our fellow travelers were always more exotic and romantic than our own. I believe the context within which this idea was presented involved a group of people in an airport discussing their destinations with one another.

"If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel"
..... Sir Vivian Fuchs

"I have arrived!"
..... Douglas MacArthur

"To infinity and beyond"
..... Buzz Lightyear

<i>and while even less travel related than the others, this is the real reason, for me</i>

&quot;You are the music while the music lasts&quot;
..... T.S. Eliot