One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
The journey is the reward.
Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.