Quotes about travel, verified at the source
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Leaving, walking, coming back: travel has inspired poets and writers since Ulysses. These quotes have been checked word for word in the original work, with their source.
To share with a travel photo, a postcard or a bon voyage message.
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Formal
Travelling in search of knowledge and meeting teachers adds greater completeness to learning.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Funny
Heartfelt
My homeland: even if eternal paradise kept me from you, my soul would long to return.
Inspiring
Staying in one place brings no ease to a thoughtful, cultivated person: leave home and travel.
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Short
I have no need of homelands; no longing for return carries me back to a land I have left.
A stranger may take an enemy for a friend; whoever does not honour himself is not honoured.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Frequently asked questions
Which quote to wish someone a good trip?
A cheerful line on the road and freedom, such as Whitman’s on the open road. For a homecoming, Du Bellay’s on Ulysses.