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The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

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?

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

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

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

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.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.