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Quotes About Travel

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
~ Jonathan Swift
We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
~ Andy Rooney
A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
~ Ann Landers
I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
~ Annie Lennox
We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
~ Anthony Langston
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
~ Anthony Trollope
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
~ Anthony Trollope
Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
~ Clive Barker
I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, theyÂ've got scarves on and suits.
~ David Gandy
Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
~ Diogenes Laertius
I've always traveled, man, so I'm always out and everywhere.
~ Donnis
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
~ George Herbert
Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
~ Horace
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
~ John F. Kennedy
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
~ John Masefield
I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.
~ Si Robertson
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
~ Mandy Moore
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
~ Harry Houdini
I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.
~ Denise Van Outen