Foreign Travel Quotes

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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

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

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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

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.

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.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.