Travels Quotes

• A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Jesus Christ
  • Napoleon
  • Travels

• The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Universe
  • Discover
  • Little

• He travels the fastest who travels alone.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Travels
  • Fastest

• In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • College
  • Opinion
  • Writers

• I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

  

  James Boswell
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Holland

• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wisdom
  • I Love
  • Satisfied

• You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Angels
  • Travels
  • I Knew

• He's used to life in the fast lane, travels all over the world, already risks his life racing at over 300km/h and seems to be handy with a gun.

  

  Mata Hari
  • Life
  • Gun
  • Risks

• A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lie

• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Picture
  • Movie Star
  • Interviewers

• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Soldier
  • Soup

• Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Change
  • Flames
  • Returning

• “Music stays in the air. It travels at the speed of breath at the sound of light.It is never not heard.It can wait centuries if it has to.”

  

  Alexis De Veaux
  • Music
  • Centuries
  • Travels

• Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult for me to work up a rage at this moment. All of a sudden I felt that revulsion against an alien way of life that anyone who travels in remote places experiences from time to time. I longed for clean clothes; the company of people who meant what they said, and did it. I longed for a hot bath and a drink.

  

  Eric Newby
  • Work
  • Force
  • Experiences

• For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

  

  Wilfred Thesiger
  • Journey
  • Sacrifice
  • Achievement

• The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Child
  • Travels
  • WInged

• Little by little, one travels far.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Little
  • Travels

• Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Travels

• My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Collection
  • Sources
  • Travels

• After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • Home
  • Change
  • Travels

• He travels best that knows when to return.

  

  Thomas More
  • Return
  • Travels

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