Famous Quotes

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

Lord Chesterfield on Travel

More quotes about Travel

• "It is better to travel well than to arrive."

  Buddha on Travel

• "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

  Maya Angelou on Travel

• "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."

  Thomas Jefferson on Travel

• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Travel

• "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

  Saint Augustine on Travel

More quotes by Lord Chesterfield

• "The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

• "In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

• "Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

• "Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

• "I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."