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~ A wise traveler never despises his own country. ~

William Hazlitt

~ Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~

Elizabeth Drew

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lin Yutang

~ Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. ~

Will Rogers

~ In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure ~

George Eliot

~ Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. ~

John Hunter

~ To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ You cannot travel the path until you have become the path. ~

Gautam Buddha

~ When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee ~

Helen Hayes

~ Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~

Terry Pratchett

~ The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. ~

Wilbur Wright

~ Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ~

Jose Ortega Gasset

~ Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. ~

Howard Nemerov

~ Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~

Terry Pratchett

~ Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work ~

Jose Saramago

~ And find that dark, too blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet, and dark wings. ~

Wendell Berry

~ I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that. ~

Ivan Lendl

~ The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. ~

Horace Walpole

~ Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ~

Lewis Mumford

~ There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ 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. ~

Augustine

~ Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ~

Czeslaw Milosz

~ The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep. ~

Janet Frame

~ Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse ~

Thomas Fuller

~ The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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