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  • All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

    Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1828). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.278
  • When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

  • If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

    "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.
  • Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

    Travel   Bugs   Wander  
  • Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

  • I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

    Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK
  • Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

    Travel   School   Journey  
    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'
  • 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
  • What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  • Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  • I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

    Travel   Adventure   Moon  
    Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

    Wise   Travel   Joy  
  • All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  • To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

  • Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

    Beach   Hurt   Circles  
    "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.
  • Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  • Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

    Art   Travel   Journey  
    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

    Travel   Writing   Mind  
    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.700, Simon and Schuster
  • There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

    Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16
  • Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  • Let your memory be your travel bag.

    "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
  • 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
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

    Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media
  • American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

    Source: www.identitytheory.com
  • I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

    Writing   Ideas   Factual  
  • 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
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

    Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press
  • Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

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