• He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human e

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 199 reads

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• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters tra

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 115 reads

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• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 63 reads

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• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 111 reads

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 161 reads

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 159 reads

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• I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 55 reads

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• I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 155 reads

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• I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 9 reads

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• If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 20 votes · 188 reads

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 197 reads

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• In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 118 reads

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• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 52 reads

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• It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

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  Janet Frame

  WriterNew Zealand1924 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 123 reads

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• Journeys end in lovers meeting.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 50 reads

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 144 reads

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• Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 171 reads

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 154 reads

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• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 44 reads

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• Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 43 votes · 67 reads

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• Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 113 reads

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 137 reads

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.1 · 34 votes · 36 reads

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• The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 47 votes · 199 reads

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• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 20 votes · 113 reads

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 109 reads

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different

  

  Paul Géraldy

  PoetFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 166 reads

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• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 196 reads

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 46 reads

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• The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 96 reads

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 39 reads

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• They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 48 votes · 124 reads

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• Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 21 votes · 145 reads

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• Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 182 reads

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 2 reads

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• Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 175 reads

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• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 32 reads

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• Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 13 votes · 54 reads

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• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 192 reads

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• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 32 reads

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• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 145 reads

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• Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 94 reads

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