Travel Quotations

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354-430)

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.””
agentjade J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English Writer and Author of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

“The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote “Tao Te Ching” (also “The Book of the Way”). 600 BC-531 BC)

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Moore quotes (English Philosopher one of the fathers of the analytic philosophy. 1873-1958)

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves”
Euripides quotes (Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC)

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –- Hodding Carter

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de St. Exupery

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” — Fitzhugh Mullan

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –- John Steinbeck

“In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children.” — Robert Benchley

‘But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?” — Noel Coward

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Anne Sophie Swetchine

“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” –- Robert Thomas Allen

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew

“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen

“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” — Samuel Johnson

“Long voyages, great lies.” – Italian proverb

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Love and Jealousy

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.  ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.  ~Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

He that is not jealous is not in love.  ~St. Augustine

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.  ~Harold Coffin

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.  ~Elizabeth Bowen

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.  ~Spanish Proverb

I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.  ~Astrid Alauda

Calamities are of two kinds:  misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food.  A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.  ~Maya Angelou

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.  ~Antisthenes

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.  ~Mme. de Puixieux

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.  ~A.R. Orage

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men will sometimes jealous be,
Though but little cause they see.
~Thomas Campion, “Never Love”

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.  ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.  ~Dorothy Dix

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.  ~Aeschylus

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
~William Shakespeare, Othello

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth.  Each of us has something to give that no one else has.  ~Elizabeth O’Connor

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.  ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.  ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.  ~Paul Eldridge

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.  ~Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.  ~Author Unknown

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.  ~William Shakespeare

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