One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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.
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.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a sp...
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
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