Mark Twain Quotes About Travel

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Success, Travel

• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Brother, Hands

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

• ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humor, Men

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

• One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Travel, Phrases

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.407, Sheba Blake Publishing

• There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Land, Cheerful

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.306, Univ of California Press

• We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Fashion, Travel

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

• The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Travel, Humor

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

• I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Real, Grateful

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.300, University of Iowa Press

• They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humorous, Foreigners

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 19 (1869)

• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Society, Tourism

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

• To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Pain, Care

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.131, Courier Corporation

• We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Lying, Vanity

• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Ass, Gentle

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

• To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Consequence

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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