The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Quotes
The 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, 1856After 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, 1935For 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, 1879According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640See 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, 1843There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Travel 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, 1989