Category: Travel Quotes SMS

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.  ~Lord DunsanyCUL

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.  ~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money.  Then take half the clothes and twice the money.  ~Susan Heller

There’s a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation.  It’s called your checkbook.  ~Author Unknown

A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.  ~Lemony Snicket

If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.  ~George Winters

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.  ~G.K. Chesterton

It is not down in any map; true places never are.  ~Herman Melville

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.  ~SenecaCCQ

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.  ~George Bernard ShawCUL

I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself.  ~Dennis Potter, 1978

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.  ~Ray BradburyCCQ

The traveler sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.  ~G.K. Chesterton

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.  ~Dave Barry

And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel:  it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.  ~Dave BarryFCN

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.  ~Anatole France

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings.  You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.  ~Terry HansonCG

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.  ~Regina Nadelson in European Travel & Life

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.  ~Benjamin Disraeli