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.
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
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.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
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.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
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.
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...
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