Quotes about Travel
An English man does not travel to see English men.
— Laurence Sterne
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
— Laurence Sterne
I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.
— Celine Dion
It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
— Charles Dickens
When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!
— Charles Dickens
It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned into happiness.
— Charles Dickens
It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!
— Charles Dickens
How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.
— Charles Dickens
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
— Thomas Jefferson
roads were made for journeys not destinations
— Confucius
He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.
— Cormac McCarthy
The point, Squire, is that where they used to be confined to State institutions or to the mudrooms and attics of remote country houses they are now abroad everywhere. The government pays them to travel. To procreate, for that matter. I've seen entire families here that can best be explained as hallucinations. Hordes of drooling dolts lurching through the streets. Their inane gibbering. And of course no folly so deranged or pernicious as to escape their advocacy.
— Cormac McCarthy