Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.
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...
The journey is the reward.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a...
All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would...
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.
A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.