Travel quotes and words of wisdom

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
Lao Tzu


"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."
Saadi


"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
Carlo Goldoni


"All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits Better countries, he may learn to improve his own; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own."
Samuel Johnson


"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


"He travels the fastest who travels alone."
Rudyard Kipling


"How You Gonna Keep "Em Down on the Farm After They"ve Seen Paree?"
Sam M. Lewis


"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
Hilaire Belloc


"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go."
Robert L. Stevenson


"If its tourist season, why can?t we shoot them?"
Steven Wright


"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
C. Archie Danielson


"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
Owen Feltham


"PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."
Proverb


"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
Saint Augustine


"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here.""
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have often found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one?s position and be bruised in a new place."
Washington Irving


"Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, And brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief."
Tuckerman


"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
Francis Bacon


"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
Elizabeth Drew


"Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad."
Jonathan Swift


"We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing."
Henry David Thoreau


Interesting Quotes

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.Isaac Asimov - US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K Jerome