In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
~ Mark Twain
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
~ T. G. Appleton
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
~ David Steinberg
London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.
~ Anonymous
Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.
~ Cecil Rhodes
I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive.
~ Adam Christing
When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.
~ Nick Arnette
When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.
~ Groucho Marx
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.
~ Joan Rivers
I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.
~ Kee Flynn
We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.
~ Bob Hope
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
~ Theo Cowan
I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.
~ Sue Kolensky
Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough.
~ Richard Jeni
All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
~ John Rusk
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
~ Alexander Chase
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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.
~ Fred Allen
The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.
~ English Proverb
The journey is the reward.
~ Tao Saying
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
~ Mason Cooley
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
~ George Ade
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
~ Christian Morgenstern
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
~ George S. Kaufman
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
~ William Shakespeare
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
~ Aldous Huxley
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
~ Diane Arbus
