Travel

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."

"The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism."

"Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."

"One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way."

"Cœlum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est."

"I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay."

"The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru."

"Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life."

"Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white."

"Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey."

"Better sit still where born, I say, Wed one sweet woman and love her well, Love and be loved in the old East way, Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell, Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles, And to sail the thousands of watery miles In search of love, and find you at last On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast."

"We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole."

"Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture."

"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend."

"Zählt der Pilger Meilen, Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt?"

"Nusquam est, qui ubique est."

"I think it was Jekyll who used to say that the further he went west, the more convinced he felt that the wise men came from the east."

"'Tis nothing when a fancied scene's in view To skip from Covent Garden to Peru."

"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'Tis all barren!""

"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."

"'Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes."

"Let observation with extended observation observe extensively."

"For always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known."

"All human race from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue."

"The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins."