Famous Traveling Quotes

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
-- Goldoni

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
-- Bible

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
-- Samuel Johnson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- George Eliot

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
-- Francis Beaumont

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
-- Hernando Cortez

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
-- Richard Hovey

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
-- Lord Byron

I love to travel, But hate to arrive.
-- Hernando Cortez

In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
-- George Eliot

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
-- Thomas Fuller

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.
-- Samuel Johnson

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
-- Samuel Johnson

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
-- Homer

The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.
-- Louis XV

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

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