Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Henry David Thoreau – Travel, Home
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Henry David Thoreau – Travel
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. Chesterton – Travel & tourism
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson – Traveling
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.
Samuel Johnson – Travel, Imagination
As the Spanish proverb says, ”He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.” So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson – Travel
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt – Traveling, Home
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt – Travel
Travel’s greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
William Hazlitt – Travel
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
Goethe – Traveling
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou – Travel, Friendship
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
Maya Angelou – Mankind, Travel
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Charles Dickens – Traveler
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James Baldwin – Voyagers, World
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
