Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

Erma Bombeck

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

Erma Bombeck

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Fanny Burney

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Fran Lebowitz

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Santayana

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

George P. Shultz

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

George Mikes

Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

Chrissie Hynde

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Jean Cocteau

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Gene Simmons

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Henry Mancini

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

Henry Miller

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Henry Miller

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Helen Keller

Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.

George Eliot

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

George Eliot

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

George Eliot

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Gary Oldman

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

Fred Allen

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Christian Morgenstern

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

Christian Morgenstern

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Christa McAuliffe

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

J. B. Priestley

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Isaac Watts

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Franz Grillparzer

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Jennifer Hudson

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.