Effevee is dol op reizen. En hij is blijkbaar niet alleen. Door de eeuwen heen hebben bekende en minder bekende mensen dezelfde passie gehad en dit inspireerde hen tot gevleugelde uitspraken. Deze pagina verzamelt enkele van Effevee’s favoriete reisquotes.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.Mark Twain
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.Mark Twain
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.St. Augustine
If you reject the food, ignore the customs,
fear the religion and avoid the people,
you might better stay at home.James Michener
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.Clifton Fadiman
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.Lin Yutang
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.Henry Miller
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.Lao Tzu
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.Aldous Huxley
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.Paul Theroux
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.Samuel Johnson
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.Samuel Johnson
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.Bill Bryson
A wise traveler never despises his own country.Carlo Goldoni
Take only memories, leave only footprints.Chief Seattle
Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.Marty Rubin
A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.Carl Burns
I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it.Alexander Sattler
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.Jawaharlal Nehru
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.Carl Sandburg
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen.Mark Hertsgaard
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.Ibn Battuta
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the bagage car.August Strindberg
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