TRAVEL

Reated Subjects: Distance, River, Sea, Ship, Walking, Wanderlust

1. See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy

2. Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of travelling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
   Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!—COWPER, The Progress of Error
   

4. Foreign travel ought to soften prejudices, religious or political, and liberalize a man's mind; but how many there are who seem to have travelled for the purpose of getting up their rancour against all that is opposed to their notions.—CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS, My Unknown Chum
   

5. Oh! it is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion—to lose our importunate, tormenting, everlasting personal identity and become the creature of the moment, clear of all ties . . . to be known by no other title than the Gentleman in the parlour!—HAZLITT, On Going a Journey
   

6. The soul of a journey is liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.—HAZLITT, On Going a Journey
   

7. They change their climate, not their disposition, who run beyond the sea.—HORACE, Epistles
   

8. The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.—ALDOUS HUXLEY, Essays
   

9. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

10. Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.—KATHERINE MANSFIELD
    

11. My heart is warm with the friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing;
    Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take
    No matter where It's going.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Travel
    

12. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and re­turns home to find it.—GEORGE MOORE, The Brook Kerith
    

13. Discreet stops make speedy journeys.—Proverb
    

14. Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse.—Proverb
    

15. The fool wanders; the wise man travels.—Proverb
    

16. A travelled man hath leave to lie.—Proverb
    

17. When you are traveling abroad look not back at your own border.—PYTHAGORAS
    

18. A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.—STERNE, Tristram Shandy
    

19. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "Tis all barren!"—STERNE, A Sentimental Journey
    

20. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.—STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
    

21. I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

22. The swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.—THOREAU, Walden