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Honore de Balzac Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could find an image of the century of Louis XV in some village in Provence, that of Louis XIV in Poitou, that of even more remote times in the far reaches of Br
Ted Simon ???As I think about (distance travelled) I have a sudden and extraordinary flash, something I have never had before and am never able to recapture again. I see the whole of Africa in one single vision, as though illuminated by lightning.???
Ted Simon I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
John Steinbeck Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired
Lin Yutang No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
The Dhammapada Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.
Ben Gaye, III No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.
Saint Augustine The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
S. Barry Lipkin Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
Mark Twain Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
John Muir I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Lin Yutang No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Al Boliska Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Robert Louis Stephenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Miriam Beard Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
F Scott Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.
Woody Allen It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
D. Morgan If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.
Dorothy Parker Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme - I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.
Howard Nemerov Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Rodney Dangerfield Another travel agent told me I could spend 7 nights in Hawaii...No days..just nights.
Rodney Dangerfield A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.
John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John Berger Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Muir We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so muc
John Muir We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
Saint Augustine People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
Honore de Balzac Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could find an image of the century of Louis XV in some village in Provence, that of Louis XIV in Poitou, that of even more remote times in the far reaches of Br
William Sherman Pene du Bois The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.
Joseph Heller Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Hellen Keller It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Rodney Dangerfield A travel agent offered me a 21 day special. He told me I would fly from New York to London. Then from Tokyo back to New York. I asked him...how am I supposed to get from London to Tokyo? He told me That is why we give you 21 days.
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
Disks travel in packs.
There's no future in time travel
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Great minds travel in the same sewers.
Terminator bumpersticker: I TIME TRAVEL NAKED.
A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
The hardest thing about time travel is the grammar.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Chicago? Been there. I'm ready to travel at WARP speed!
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination. There's no future in time travel.
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
"Swirled yogurt. Essential to space travel." -- Joel Robinson
"Careful planning is the key to safe and swift travel." ULYSSES
If you want to succeed,you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
"Space travel is utter bilge." - Richard Wolley, Astronomer 1950
"Space travel is the only flight to freedom." -- Lightspeed
"Come, Pinky, we're wasting time travel!" - Brain
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
"My GOD, how many stupid time travel stories can you TELL?!"--Tom C.
"Have whipped cream, will travel!" -Tim Ashley
"Highway Travel" - By Dusty Rhodes
"Time travel gives me nosebleeds." - LaForge
"Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel." - C-3PO
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
"That's the last time I ever travel by bean." - Yakko
"Transporting really is the safest way to travel." - Geordi
"I travel all over America," Tom stated.
"Travel by motorcycle," said Tom triumphantly.

 

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