Best Travel Quotes

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This has proven to be a very popular email amongst all of you. I appreciate the fact that you embrace these as much as I do. And for some, I know that you live your lives with some of these quotations in mind. You are the fortunate ones.

So, here we go again.

“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel.

"I was born with the feeling that if time and hurry were forgotten, something quiet and wonderful would happen in their place." Eudora Welty, 1942. "There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home." -- Stephen Colbert, talk show host “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” -- Al Gore, environmental activist

" I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice." Marco Polo

"The Church says the earth is flat, but I know the earth is round, for I have seen the shadow of the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than the church." Ferdinand Magellan

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." Robert Zimmerman, also known as singer and song writer, Bob Dylan.
"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure." – Aldous Huxley
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (I wonder what he had to say about wearing clean underwear?) “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli "Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world" - Gustave Flaubert "People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home" - Dagobert Runes "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled" - Mohamed "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware" - Martin Buber "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" - Lao Tzu "I love to travel but hate to arrive" - Albert Einstein "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries" - Aldous Huxley "It is not down on any map, true places never are" - Herman Melville "Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson My new all time favorite: "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles" - Tim Cahill

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