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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

For 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 Stevenson, 1879

I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

—Robert Burton, c. 1620

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

—Jonathan Swift, 1726

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—Mark Twain, 1894