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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

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

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!