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The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

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.

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to possess the world

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Travelers must be content.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.