Some Great Travel Quotations

The web is full of quotations on about every subject possible. Here are a few of my favorites relating to travel. Hats off to lonesome traveller for these.

"Travel teaches how to see" -African Proverb

"No matter where you go, there you are" -Unkown

"They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea" -Horace

"Not all those who wander are lost" -JRR Tolkien

"It is good to have an end to journey inwards, but is the journey that matters in the end." -Ursala La Guin

"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds." -Charles Horton Cooley

"I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring." -Lord Byron

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. -Seneca

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
-G.K. Chesterton

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

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
-- Lao-tzu

"They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea."
-Horace

"Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes."
-Myrdal, Jan

"Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?" -Peter Mathissen

Another great travel quote...

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

-William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways