Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
August 24th, 2008
I found the Hans Christian Anderson quote that I used on my blog masthead in one of the many long list of travel quotes that you can find on the net. I like a good travel quote (and maybe one day I might have a quote good enough to make a list!). There were a hundred quotes on the list I found, but for your viewing pleasure I’ve culled the list down to my top 15…
“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
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” - Freya Stark
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” - Tim Cahill
“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” - Rudyard Kipling
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G. K. Chesterton
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” - Clifton Fadiman