....Life's too short to stay anywhere too long....

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. "
- Douglas Adams

"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
– Benjamin Disraeli

"Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt

"Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries."
- Rene Descartes

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

"I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. "
- Britney Spears

That's it, that's the showstopper. Please let this thread end here - there's just no answer to Britney!

i always like this proverb...

"explore and explore. make yourself necessary, and the world will give you bread."

More from Mark Twain, on travel:

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

"Helluva place to lose a cow" Ebenezer Bryce ...describing Bryce Canyon. It's just so true, succinct, funny and apt

Where the ocean meets the sky, I’ll be sailing

-Rod Stewart

Thank you so much everyone! I particularly love the Susan Sontag quote - "I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list" and the Mark Twain quotes. I am thinking of painting one on the wall in my family room - just have to find someone who is artistic.

Pam

I LOVE this thread.....
I wish I could remember the exact words---of my favorite
Maybe by Thoreau ????
Something to the effect----a real traveler is one who goes somewhere for absolutely no reason.
anyone know the exact quote???

When travel becomes travail, there's no place like Home...

Pam, No artistic skill required! Go here:

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And I just found another good one


"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
Saint Augustine

How very cool! Thanks for sharing!

There's no place like home.
-Dorothy

Sorry. Couldn't resist

That reminds me of my favorite T Shirt:

From the Desk of Toto -
Dear Dorothy.
Hate Oz,
Took the shoes,
Find your own way home!
(pawprint) Toto

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you've traveled."
- Mohamed

"As long as you have enough money and enough time, you are never lost."

This is from my best friend, who told me this when I got lost driving in Minneapolis and started getting upset. I think he's right.

My favorites....

"I travel a lot, I hate having my life disruppted by routine"

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

OBXgirl - Thanks so much for the link. That is such a cool site - and the travel quote they have in their library is not bad but I think I will spring for a custom quote

Pam

I love this thread. I printed the quotes so I can refer back to them and pass them on to travel companions!
A book full of adventure travel quotes is On The Loose by Terry and Renny Russell. It was a "must read" at my wilderness canoe camp when I was a teenager.