"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."
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"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me."
"The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?"
"Travel is a fools paradise."
"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places."
"For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"
"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab."
"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."
"I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land."
"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
"Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?"
"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
"I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind."
"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me."
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."
"I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980."