The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Quotes
One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944For 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, 1879There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989More 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, 1943After 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, 1935Journeys, 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, 1957Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856