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Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

—Amelia Earhart, 1935

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

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

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Robert Burton, c. 1620

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

—Brigitte Bardot, 1989