Quotes About Travel

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,And merrily hent the stile-a:A merry heart goes all the day,Your sad tires in a mile-a.

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus' lodging.

'Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home.

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

William Shakespeare

That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,Like him that travels, I return again.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.

The youth, who daily farther from the eastMust travel, still is Nature's priest,And by the vision splendidIs on his way attended;At length the man perceives it die away,And fade into the light of common day.

I traveled among unknown men,In lands beyond the sea;Nor, England! did I know till thenWhat love I bore to thee.

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day,Festively she puts forth in trim array.

Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.

I travelled among unknown men in lands beyond the sea . . .

I rang them up while touring Timbucktoo,Those bosom chums to whom you're known as"Who?"

Meine Weltkugel war bestimmt nicht rund gewesen, sondern wie ein Abendhimmel, in dem die fremden Orte wie Feuerwerk blitzten.