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Written by Gene Tewksbury   

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Literature, movies and even music (oh yeah, and real people too) are full of great inspirational and insightful quotes about traveling our world.   Here's the one's I've managed to find.  Note:  I do not vouch for the accuracy of the quotes or their authors.  I'm just relaying them as I heard/read them.


 

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

 

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
- Mark Twain

 

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
- John Steinbeck

 

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
- Henry Miller

 

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
- Freya Stark

 

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain

 

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
- Paul Theroux

 

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
- Lao Tzu

 

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
- James Michener

 

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- J. R. R. Tolkien

 

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”
- Anatole France

 

“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

 

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
- Aldous Huxley

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Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:27
 

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