Traveler Quotes
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A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.
Thomas Starr King
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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
Joseph Lelyveld
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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
Willa Cather
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
Beryl Markham
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Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
Sanford I. Weill
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Paul Fussell
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If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
Gautama Buddha