- Samuel Johnson
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"He who does not travel does not know the value of men."
- Moorish proverb
"Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travelers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns."
- Paul Fussell
"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. . . In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable."
- John Steinbeck
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
- Aldous Huxley
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
- Freya Stark
". . .travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
- Miriam Beard
"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine."
- Caskie Stinnett
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
- Hilaire Belloc
"There is no happiness for the man who does not travel. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner. For Indra is the friend of the traveler. Therefore wander!"
- Aitarey Brahmana
"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
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
- Paul Theroux
"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
- Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck