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We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

What am I doing here?

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.