Travel Quotes

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

You get educated by traveling.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.