There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCQuotes
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The 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, 1822When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625There 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, 1989The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125After 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, 1935See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580People 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, 1843