Famous Quotes

"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."

W. H. Auden 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 W. H. Auden

• "Now is the age of anxiety."

• "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

• "'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

• "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

• "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."