Travel Quotes

The traveling experience can inspire remarkable words of wisdom. These are some of the unforgettable quotes about traveling and the lifestyle of the traveler.

“Little by little, one travels far.” -- J. R. R. Tolkien

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -- Benjamin Disraeli

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” -- Herman Melville

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -- St. Augustine

“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

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” -- Mark Twain

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -- James Michener

“The journey not the arrival matters.” -- T. S. Eliot

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -- Lao Tzu

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” -- G.K. Chesterton

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” -- Antoine de St. Exupery

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -- Lawrence Block

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” -- Izaak Walton

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” -- Miriam Beard

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” -- Moslih Eddin Saadi

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” -- John Steinbeck

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” -- Peter Hoeg

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” --George Moore

“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” -- Henry Boye