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. Maya Angelou
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. Paul Theroux
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. -Robert Louis Stephenson
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” -Hilaire Belloc
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anatole France
May the blessing of light be upon you, Light on the outside, Light on the inside. With God’s sunlight shining on you, May your heart glow with warmth, Like a turf fire that welcomes friends and strangers alike. May the light of the Lord shine from your eyes, Like a candle in the window, Welcoming the weary traveler.
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.” ~ Max Lerner
“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you’re not in a hurry.” ~ Paul Theroux
“A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.” ~ Lemony Snicket
“May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view… where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you.” ~ Edward Abbey
“Don’t simply seek interesting surroundings, but be continually interested in whatever surrounds you. It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.” ~ Paul Theroux
“It is fine wherever my feet take me, as long as there are sights to see.” ~ Gao Xingjian
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” ~ Alan Ashley-Pitt
“No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.” ~ Cromwell
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” ~ Dagobert D. Runes
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” ~ Yogi Berra
“The freedom of travel opens the mind to unlimited possibilities.” ~ unknown
“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” ~ Mark Twain
“The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only one page.” St. Augustine
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
“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.” ~ Bill Bryson
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
“If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.” ~ Paul Bowles
“The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.” ~ Sam Ewing
“You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” ~ Freya Stark
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” ~ Lawrence Durrell
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
“Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.” ~ Sadi Gulistan
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” ~ Francis Bacon
“Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined — how is it that this safe return brings such regret?” ~ Peter Mathiesson
“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.” ~ Nadine Gordimer
“The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.” ~ Mason Cooley
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.” ~ James Thurber
“Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.” ~ Portuguese proverb
“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
“I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.” ~ Lord Byron
“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” ~ Italo Calvino
Origin of: “Fair Winds and Following Seas.” The origin of the quote “Fair Winds and Following Seas” is unknown. It is often said to have been lifted from a poem, phrase, or literary work, but to the best of this researcher’s knowledge, it wasn’t. Over the last century at least, the two quotes “Fair Winds” and “Following Seas” have evolved, by usage, into a single phrase which is often used as a nautical blessing. “Fair Winds”: The Dictionary of American Regional English defines “Fair Wind” as “safe journey; good fortune.” An early example of the phrase’s use is in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, published in 1851, where it says near the end “Let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homeward.” In other words, let me square the yards (add on all sail) and make a safe journey home. “Following Seas”: Defined by Bowditch’s American Practical Navigatoras “A sea in which the waves move in the general direction of the heading.” It further defines “Tide” as “the periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interactions between the sun, moon, and earth. . . . the accompanying horizontal movement of the water is part of the same phenomenon.” In simple terms: the movement of the water, the waves, and the surface, correspond with the movement of the tide. “Fair Winds and Following Seas” is really two quotes originating from different sources. The two quotes are a nautical phrase of good luck–a blessing as it were–as the person, group, or thing it is said to departs on a voyage in life. It is often used at a “beginning” ceremony such as a commissioning ceremony of a ship or people, as well as in retirement, change of command, or farewell ceremonies. Source: Researched by Samuel Loring Morison.