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Quotes About Travel

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
~ Kathleen Norris
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
~ Billy Connolly
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
~ Amelia Barr
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
~ Charles Simic
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
Travel is lethal to prejudice.
~ Mark Twain
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
~ Mario Batali
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
~ Paul D. Boyer
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
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
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
~ Mark Twain
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
So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.
~ Dave Attell
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
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
~ Helen Hayes
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