I hate a room without an
open suitcase in it... it seems so permanent
--Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) American writer
The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect
liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
–William Hazlitt (178-1830) English writer
“Go West,” said Horace Greely, but my slogan is
“Go Anyplace.”
–Richard Bissell (1913-1981) American writer
The only aspect of our travels that is
guaranteed to hold an audience is disaster
–Matha Gellman (1908-2006) American writer
A journey is a person in itself; no two are
alike. And all plans, safeguards policies, and coercion are
fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a
trip; the trip takes us.
–John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
I think there is a fatality in it –I seldom go
to the place I set out for.
–L. Sterne (1713- 1768) English writer
The next best thing to being rich is traveling
as though your were.
–Stephen Brinbaum (b. 1937) American editor and writer
The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist.
–Paul Richard (b. 1939) American writer
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you
get there in a car.
–E. B. White (1899-1985) American writer
When you go by boat or train or car you
travel. When you go by plane, you are sent.
–Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American writer
Not traveling is like living in the Library of
Congress but never taking out more than one or two books.
–Marilyn Van Savant (b.1946) American writer
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There
is no greater bore than the travel bore.
We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
–Vita Sackvile-West (1892-1962) English writer
Traveling in the company of those we love is
home in motion.
–Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) English writer
Women have always yearned for far away places.
It was no accident that a woman financed the first package tour of
the New World, and you can bet Isabella would have taken the trip
herself, only Ferdinand wouldn’t let her go.
–Roslyn Friedman (b. 1924) American writer
Road, n. A strip of land over which one
must pass from where it is too tiresome to be and where it is too
futile to go. –Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American writer
The border means more than a customs house, a
passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going
to be different; life will never be the same again after your
passport has been stamped.
--Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far
more beautiful and strange than anything I had hope for or
imagined—how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
—Peter Matthiessen (b. 1927) American writer
It is so like living in a new world, so free,
so fresh, so vital, so careless,
so unfettered . . . that one grudges being asleep.
—Isabella Bird, 1831 English Traveler
There are three wants which can never be
satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the
sick, who wants something different, and that of the traveler, who
says “Anywhere but here.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Three kinds of people die poor: those who divorce, those who incur
debts,
and those who move around too much. —Senegalese proverb
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone. —Kipling, The
Winners
They change their clime,
not their frame of mind, who rush across the sea. —Horace
I have not told even half
of the things that I have seen. —Marco Polo
Travel is the ruin of all
happiness!
There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. —Fanny
Burney,1782, Cecillia
Travel, in the younger
sort, is a part of education; in the older a part of experience.
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into
the language,
Goeth to school, and not to travel. —Francis Bacon, 1625
Some minds improve by
travel, others, rather
Resemble copper wire or brass,
Which gets narrower by going further! —Thomas Hood, 1799
To travel hopefully is a
better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
A good traveler is one
who does not where he is going,
and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
—Lin Yutang 1895, The Importance of Living
The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of
information
he had gained from observing airport layouts.
—Anthony Price, 1928
The shape of Africa
resembles a revolver, and Congo is the trigger.
—Frantz Fanon, 1925
