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, 1935Quotes
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856A 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, 1726See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Traveling 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, 1797Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794