Traveling Quotes and Sayings


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

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this - we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. - Hilaire Belloc

The man who never in his mind and thought travelled to heaven, is not an artist. - William Blake


If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. - William F. Buckley, Jr.

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. - Ralph Crawshaw

Never take a cross country trip with a kid who has just learned to whistle. - Jean Deuel

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. - Elizabeth Drew

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. - John Hope Franklin