Quotes to Smile

It can sometimes be hard to put words to experiences. Why do you love to travel? How do you feel when you travel? Here are some quotes and reflections that just might resonate with your own travel experiences.

1. “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

2. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

3. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

4. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

5. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

6. “People don’t take trips. . .trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

7. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

8. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

9. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

10. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

11. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

12. “Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane. ” – Jim Gaffigan

13. “There’s only four ways to get unraveled; One is to sleep and the other is travel.” – Jim Morrison

14. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

15. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro

16. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin.

17. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

18. “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