Travel Quotes - Page 49

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.

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.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

I like Paris. They don't talk so much of money, but more of sex