Travel Quotes - Page 8

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

The true traveler never arrives.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.