Quotes About Travel

has even been suggested that Marco Polo never made it to China, despite his apparently firsthand descriptions of that region.

Although Travels included Polo's experiences closer to home, enlivened with shrewd observations

Mandeville argued that it was possible for people to circumnavigate the globe, but he warned

Magellan had a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted," wrote Bartolomé de las Casas

And on it he indicated the route he proposed to take.

After three busy days in one of Tenerife's harbors, Pigafetta wrote, "We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose

Allow yourself to wander and travel through your world for one day without resorting to dividing the world up into pairs of opposites. The Journey Without Aim is often propitious.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

I think there is a fatality in it—I seldom go to the place I set out for.

The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.

Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

È sempre stato così, in tutti i miei viaggi: sono sempre un perdente, perché mi attacco troppo alle cose, o alle persone, e cosi il viaggio non è più un viaggio, ma un ripetuto addio Ho passato il tempo a dire addio e a ricordare, e a raccogliere indirizzi nelle mie agendine come piccole lapidi.

Het trage, tropische voortslenteren, de manier van lopen van de flaneur, is de beste manier om een land te leren kennen. Ik lees, ik schrijf en ik voel hoe het land langzaam in mij doorsijpelt - haast is fataal voor de reiziger.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via.

Sei in gamba perché sei stata a Parigi", pensavo, "o sei stata a Parigi perché sei in gamba?

Reizen heeft iets geweldadigs, het dwingt je om vreemden te vertrouwen, en de geborgenheid van huis en vrienden achter te laten.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.

across the Staked Plains to Ft. Sumner,

All in one day I flew to Puerto Rico and took care of two matters. Then I flew to Chicago and took care of one matter. Then I flew to San Francisco and stopped at a bar for a couple of glasses of wine, because I knew I wouldn't get anything to drink when I got to the Fairmont to meet up with Jimmy and give him the report. I walked into Jimmy's hotel room at exactly 8:00 P.M. and he yelled at me for keeping him waiting.