For 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, 1879Quotes
There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Traveling 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, 1797More 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, 1943If 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, 1777I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782A 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, 1726Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620