See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Quotes
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, 1726Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390The 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, 1822All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777