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Cool travel quotes

  • "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
      - Saint Augustine

  • "I'm hittin' the road. Maybe I'll drop you a line some day from wherever I wind up in this crazy old world."
      - Homer Simpson

  • "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take the ship."
      - Herman Melville, 'Moby Dick'

  • "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
      - Lao Tzu

  • "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
      - Mark Twain

  • "The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor."

  • "The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And wither then? I cannot say."
      - J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Lord of the Rings'

  • "I love to travel, But hate to arrive."
      - Albert Einstein

  • "Not all those who wander are lost."
      - J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Lord of the Rings'

  • "And the end of all our exploring,
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time."
      - T.S. Eliot

  • "Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
      – Benjamin Disraeli

  • "I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."
      – William Hazlitt

  • "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
      - Douglas Adams

  • "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
      - Paul Theroux
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