Travel Quotes

"Travel is the saddest of pleasures."

Paul Morand

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

Mason Cooley

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."

Saadi Shirazi

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

George Eliot

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T. S. Eliot

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."

Frank Borman

"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Because it's there."

George Mallory

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."

John Muir

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

Sir Edmund Hillary

"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."

Reinhold Messner

"In the north rises the Himalaya, the king of mountains, divine in spirit, spanning the earth from the eastern to the western sea like a measuring rod."

Kalidasa

"Who goes to the Hills, goes to his mother."

Rudyard Kipling

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds."

Mark Twain

"Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together."

Mark Twain

"Let the splendour of jewel and pearl and ruby vanish like the magic shimmer of the rainbow. Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever."

"Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passion of an emperor's love wrought in living stones."

Sir Edwin Arnold

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

Romain Rolland

"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages."

Will Durant

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown."

Gertrude Stein

"To breathe Paris preserves the soul."

Victor Hugo

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

Truman Capote

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."

Freya Stark