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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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

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

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

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

To travel is to possess the world

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

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 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.

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.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

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.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.