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Quotations
 | The only journey is the one within. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 12 likes |
 | A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes |
 | Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 5 likes |
 | To lose your prejudices, you must travel. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | When a journey begins badly, it seldom ends well. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 4 likes |
 | The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | I love to travel, but I hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | Like all great travelers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Penelope was the last trial of Ulysses at the end of his journey. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
 | For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 3 likes |
 | The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 3 likes |
 | As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. — Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ Ithaka 2 likes |
 | I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 2 likes |
 | Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
 | Journeys end in lovers meeting. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Twelfth Night 2 likes |
 | We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. |
 | I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. |
| Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. |
 | A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. |
 | Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. |
 | It is better to travel well than to arrive. |
 | He travels the fastest who travels alone. |
| It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. |
 | The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. |
| There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
| Sightseeing is the art of disappointment. |
| We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
| Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. |
 | Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Don’t you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we’d be happy if we did? |
| Don’t you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we’d be happy if we did? |
 | There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. |
 | If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. |
Quotes in Verse
 | O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
| I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | Wherever I travel, Greece hurts me. |
 | What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. |
 | To shut your eyes is to travel. |
| There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away… |
Ancient Greek
 | For the wise is easy to go anywhere. Because the whole world is home for a good soul. Ανδρί σοφώ πάσα γη βατή, ψυχής γαρ αγαθής πατρίς ο ξύμπας κόσμος. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds. Πολλών δ’ ανθρώπων ίδεν άστεα και νόον έγνων. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey I 9 likes |
 | Traveling is the best education. Το αποδημείν εί αρίστη παιδεία. 7 likes |
