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  • #1
    Erma Bombeck
    “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Erol Ozan
    “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
    Erol Ozan

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #5
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    mary anne radmacher

  • #6
    Rick Steves
    “Self-consciousness kills communication.”
    Rick Steves

  • #7
    Gustave Flaubert
    “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.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt

  • #8
    Ryū Murakami
    “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
    Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

  • #9
    Paul Theroux
    “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
    Paul Theroux

  • #10
    “We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.”
    Jeremy Glass

  • #11
    Michael Palin
    “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

  • #12
    Agnes Repplier
    “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
    Agnes Repplier

  • #13
    “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”
    Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities

  • #14
    Rolf Potts
    “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”
    Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #16
    Kirsten Hubbard
    “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.”
    Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

  • #17
    Clifton Fadiman
    “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
    Clifton Fadiman

  • #18
    Erol Ozan
    “You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.”
    Erol Ozan

  • #19
    Pico Iyer
    “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice”
    Pico Iyer

  • #20
    Clive Barker
    “Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”
    Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

  • #21
    Julian Barnes
    “He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #22
    Gregory Maguire
    “The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #23
    John Hope Franklin
    “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;”
    John Hope Franklin

  • #24
    Ira Levin
    “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
    Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby

  • #25
    Rudyard Kipling
    “All good people agree,
    And all good people say,
    All nice people, like Us, are We
    And every one else is They:
    But if you cross over the sea,
    Instead of over the way,
    You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
    As only a sort of They!”
    Rudyard Kipling, Debits And Credits

  • #26
    Kirsten Hubbard
    “I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.”
    Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
    Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #29
    Chris Brady
    “It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.”
    Chris Brady, A Month of Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation

  • #30
    Stefanos Livos
    “A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.”
    Stefanos Livos



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