Travel quotes

Well of course no travel site would be complete without a sprinkling of travel quotes along the way. Here are some of our favourites for you to enjoy. Some of course are very well known (and often misquoted), others less so.

Hopefully there is a travel quote among them that either convinces you to set off travelling...or perhaps they will convince you to stay at home.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg

I love to travel, But hate to arrive.

Hernando Cortez

The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.

Louis XV

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

George Eliot

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Lee Frost

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

Goldoni

A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

George Moore

A traveller to distant places should make no enemies.

Nigerian Proverb

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Elwyn Brooks White

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

George Ade

In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.

Horace Benchley

No vacation goes unpunished.

Karl A Hakkarainen

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.

Saint Augustine

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

Gilbert K Chesterton

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Morris Fishbein

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus