Favorite travel quote?
 

I am looking for quotations related to travel. eg. - It is the journey not the destination, something similar to that. I am considering incorporating one into some home decor. Thanks

Pam

My favorite is...

"Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent."

-Margot Fonteyn

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- Bilbo Baggins

You can get things already designed by Mary Engelbreit with one of my favorites:

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

--Marcel Proust

The world is a book: those who do not travel read but one page.

St. Augustine.

Pam - try www.wallwords.com

"All who wander are not lost"
Shakespeare

For us adventure travelers:

'There's no such thing as bad weather... just bad gear.'

To paraphrase:

Nobody goes there anymore -- it's too crowded. ((b))

"Wherever you go there you are!

These are ones I've copied from this site over the years. Beg pardon if anyone recognizes himself/herself here.

With the world suddenly my oyster, I'd try to remind myself money doesn't mean everything -- only a tremendous amount of power until the day the Grim Reaper appears and won't bargain for oyster shells. Vacations can be like punctuation marks in your life, setting off where one piece of your life pauses and another begins.

Life is a journey -- not a guided tour.

When I'm on my death bed, I won't worry about the new car I didn't buy, or the kitchen remodeling I didn't do. I will think about being on the top of ______, or walking on the beach in ______ or seeing ______ for the first time.

When your mind travels does it prefer window or aisle?

When most people travel, they forget to pack their clues, and often leave their common sense behind at rest stops.

I love this one because it describes the best traveling companions--the only kind I'd choose. It's from Pride and Prejudice, when Elzabeth goes traveling in Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle. Yes, I know, a bit odd to decipher, but perfect nonetheless.

"One enjoyment was certain -- that of suitableness as companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences -- cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure -- and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindness..."
Mark Twain
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"Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate “tourist traps” which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the “intrepid tourist.” This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera."

- Andrei Codrescu

The last line from the Robert Frost peom:

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

I don't know that these are suitable for cross-stitch or calligraphy but they're some of my favorites:

"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." -- Mark Twain

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

"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

"Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over there'll be time enough to sleep."
- A.E. Housman 1859-1936: A Shropshire Lad

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
- Douglas Adams, "Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster. - Martha Gellman

:-) Not really a travel quote, but the first thing that popped in my head...

"Wherever you go, there you are"

Kind of fits when you read some trip reports where nothing goes right and other trip reports where things go wrong but everything works out all right. All a matter of a person's perspective.

Ah! Betsy beat me to it! Sorry.

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"

Mine is "You are being upgraded to first class".

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. --John Muir

We need wildnerness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. --Edward Abbey

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. --Wallace Stegner