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"when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes."
"They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought."
"Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to."
"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
"The more you travel, the better you get at it."
"Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures."
"Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot."
"No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts."
"If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything."
"The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination."
"Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on"
"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
"I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."
"He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience."
"If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing."
"I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go."
"Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere."
"It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions."
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
