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There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—Mark Twain, 1894

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

—Saint Augustine, c. 390

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

—Fanny Burney, 1782

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

—Gertrude Stein, 1943

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125