Quotes, proverbs and sayings about travel, for everybody who wants to see the world.
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A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
LaoziEven a big task starts with a small beginning.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark TwainA rolling stone gathers no moss.
If a person keeps moving around from place to place, they gain neither friends nor possessions.A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin SaadiAdventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.
(unknown author)All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. TolkienNot all those who wander are lost.
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEach cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
Catherine DouzelEven if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
Stephen HawkingEvery day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo BashoFor 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 StevensonGetting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.
Jeffree StarGo abroad and you'll hear news of home.
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne RadmacherI don't know where I am going, but I'm on my way.
Carl SaganI hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
Billy ConnollyI 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 TwainI haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Susan SontagI see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de CastroI travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie StinnettI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
John SteinbeckIf adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan RatherIf I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
LaoziIf you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
Lewis CarrollSource: Alice in Wonderland
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Lewis CarrollIt does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
ConfuciusIt is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William HazlittIt's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SenecaKeep going to places where you've never been before.
MinkukelLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliOne's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry MillerPeople travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Dagobert D. RunesPlease be a traveler, not a tourist.
Andrew ZimmernReading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason CooleyStop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.
(unknown author)Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Chief SeattleThe best things in life are not things.
John RuskinThe gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
Sir Richard BurtonThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
John SteinbeckThe sky is the same color wherever you go.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint AugustineThe world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
Werner HerzogThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis StevensonThere are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills