It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Quotes
There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCOne should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856