Traveling Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

25 Traveling Quotes
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“The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
“Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Travel
“Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Woman's Prize (act IV, sc. 5, l. 199)
“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Exodus (ch. II, v. 22)
“I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 1)
“He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.”
Hernando Cortez Quotes
Source: see Prescott "Conquest of Mexico", bk. V, ch. III
“I love to travel, But hate to arrive.”
Hernando Cortez Quotes
Source: see Prescott "Conquest of Mexico", bk. V, ch. III
“In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Lee Frost Quotes
Source: The Road Not Taken
“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
Source: The Holy and Profane States--Of Traveling (maxim IV)
“A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]”
Goldoni Quotes
Source: Pamela (I, 16)
“Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: paraphrasing of Johnson
“One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. V, l. 749), (Bryant's translation)
“They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us. [Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 11, 27)
“I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.”
Richard Hovey Quotes
Source: A Sea Gypsy
“The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru.”
Soame Jenkyns (Jenyns) Quotes
Source: Epistle to Lord Lovelace, suggested Johnson's lines in "Vanity of Human Wishes"
“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 traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
“Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Piozzi's Johnsoniana (154)
“Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes
“Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Source: The Gypsy Trail
“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Source: The Winners
“The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.”
Louis XV Quotes
Source: while looking at Mme. De Pompadour's Funeral