More quotations tagged with “travel”
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
—John le Carre
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
—James Baldwin
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
—Dagobert D. Runes
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
—Elizabeth Drew