My favorite trips are long trips. But, my favorite quotes are short quotes. They roll succinctly off the tongue, and are perfect fodder for picture quotes.
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To travel is to live.Hans Christian Andersen
Travel brings power and love back into your life.Rumi
The journey is my home.Muriel Rukeyser
Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.Euripides
Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.Tennessee Williams
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.John A. Shedd
Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.Kurt Vonnegut
Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.Daranna Gidel
To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.Elizabeth Gilbert
Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.Milton Glaser
To travel is to possess the world.Burton Holmes
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.Henry Miller
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.Danny Kaye
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller
The grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.Paul Theroux
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.Susan Sontag
He travels fastest who travels alone.Proverb
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.Moslih Eddin Saadi
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.Aldous Huxley
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.Peter Hoeg
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.Hilaire Belloc
Jet lag is for amateurs.Dick Clark
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.George Bernard Shaw
It is not down in any map; true places never are.Hermman Melville
Travel teaches toleration.Benjamin Disraeli
The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance
. . .life is short and the world is wide.Simon Raven
Put a ding in the universe.Steve Jobs
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Saint Augustine
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.Old Haitian Proverb
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.Rudyard Kipling
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.Moorish Proverb
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.Paul Theroux
Life is a voyage of discovery.Unknown
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.The Dhammapada
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.Yogi Berra
Adventure is worthwhile.Amelia Earhart
Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.Pascal, Pensées
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.G.K. Chesterton
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.Anne Sophie Swetchine
