travelling quotes

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Voyage'.

Asthe Spanishproverbsays,'He, whowould bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,17  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
Attributed.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  The Presidential Papers, preface.

Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

- Paul Edward Theroux
  The Great Railway Bazaar, ch.21.

I have none of the infirmities of old age, and have lost several I had in my youth. The grand cause is, the good pleasure of God, who does whatever pleases him. The chief means are:1. My constantly rising at four, for about fifty years. 2. My generally preaching at five in the morning; one of the most healthy exercises in the world. 3. My never travelling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.

-John Wesley
  Journal entry, 28 Jun.