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Quotes About Adventure

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
~ Richard Bach
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
~ Orson Welles
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
~ Paul D. Boyer
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.
~ Isabella Bird
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.
~ Paul Theroux
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
~ Count Basie
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
~ Ziggy Marley
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
~ Hernando Cortes
Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
~ Paul Theroux
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
~ Taylor Caldwell
If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.
~ Bjork
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.
~ Paul Theroux
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
~ Gautama Buddha
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
~ Euripides
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
~ Lance Morrow
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
~ Noel Coward
Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.
~ Dalai Lama
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
~ Pico Iyer
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
~ Guy de Maupassant
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
~ Alan Rickman