According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Quotes
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCFor 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, 1879After 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, 1935Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631