Funny Travel Quotes

• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Travel, Fall

  "Making Maps, Second Edition" by John Krygier, Denis Wood, The Guilford Press, (p. 58), 2011.

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Struggle, Journey

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

  Martin Yan

  Inspirational, Travel, Views

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• I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• We must travel in the direction of our fear.

  John Berryman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "A Point of Age" l. 42 (1948)

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Travel, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

  Russell Baker

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Travel, Memories

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  Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

  Michael Palin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Travel, Fun

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Travel, Stupid

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• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

  Edward Abbey

  Travel, Fun, Crazy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Adventure, Climbing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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