Foreign Travel Quotes

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  • When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

  • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  • When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

    Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins
  • I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

    FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012
  • Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

  • The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

    Dream   Sex   Laughter  
  • Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

    Travel   Home   Land  
  • Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

    Travel   Self   Giving  
  • But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

    Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

    "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

    Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media
  • The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

    Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318
  • To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  • A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin
  • According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

    Law   Gentleman   Reason  
    Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.540
  • The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

    "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.
  • Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

  • The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  • One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

  • Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

  • No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

    Beautiful   Travel   Home  
    Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”
  • There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

  • Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

  • If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

  • An English man does not travel to see English men.

    Travel   Men   Doe  
    Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.17, Hackett Publishing
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

    FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013
  • Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

    Life   Travel   Laughter  
    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam
  • The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

    Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.104
  • The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

  • I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

    Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)
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