Foreign Travel Quotes - Page 2

• Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Self, Giving

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• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

  Vera Nazarian

  Travel, Home, Land

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

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• Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Ties, Hospitality

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• When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Children, Adults

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

  Gail Carriger

  Scotland, Kilts, Taste

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• According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Gentleman, Reason

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.540

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