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Traveler Quotes - Page 2

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

Paul Theroux (1989). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.111, Velvet Element Books

Travelers must be content.

William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

Travelers should only read after dark.

Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.8, MIT Press

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.146, Baen Publishing Enterprises

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

I am very little of a traveler.

Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.73, Harper Collins