Monday, 13 October 2014

Famous Quotations

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


I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself.  ~Dennis Potter, 1978


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley


The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.K. Chesterton

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.  ~George Winters


I met a lot of people in Europe.  I even encountered myself.  ~James Baldwin


Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.  ~G.K. Chesterton


There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation.  It's called your checkbook.  ~Author Unknown


The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.  ~George Ade, Forty Modern Fables


A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. ~Lemony Snicket

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  ~Mark Twain


I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw


I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye

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