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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
-James Thurber
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The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
-William Trogdon
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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
-Mark Twain
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
-Mark Twain
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
-Mark Twain
Innocents Abroad conclusion, 1869
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
-Anne Tyler
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Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.
-Source Unknown
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If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?
-Source Unknown
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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.
-Source Unknown
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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.
-Source Unknown
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The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.
-Source Unknown
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Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
-Source Unknown
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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-Kurt Vonnegut
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I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.
-Susan M. Watkins
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
-Walt Whitman
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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
-Oscar Wilde
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
-Oscar Wilde
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I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.
-William Wordsworth
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
-Lin Yutang
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
-Lin Yutang
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Books about Travel
