61 Inspirational Travel Quotes That Are Hilariously True

"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

- Al Gore

"I've been to almost as many places as my luggage."

- Bob Hope

"There is nothing safer than flying—it's crashing that is dangerous."

- Theo Cowan

"Don't worry about the world ending today, it's already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles M. Schulz

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."

- Mitch Hedberg

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."

- Russell Baker

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by stark moments of terror."

- Al Boliska

"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror."

- Orson Welles

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money."

- Susan Heller

"Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything."

- Steve Martin

"Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive."

- Mercedes Lackey

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

- Paul Theroux

"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometres."

- George Carlin

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

- Oscar Wilde

"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."

- Susan Sontag

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."

- Charles Kuralt

"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

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal."

- Jarod Kintz

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland."

- Douglas Coupland

"I travel light but not at the same speed."

- Jarod Kintz

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it's lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else."

- Lawrence Block

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- Scott Myers

"Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life"

- Michael Palin

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness."

- Martin Buber

"Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do."

- Edward Abbey

"A journey is measured in friends rather than miles."

- Tim Cahill

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It's saying 'I would stay and love you but I have to go, this is my station."

- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

"Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take."

- Sheridan Anderson

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told."

- Alan Keightley

"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."

- Rosalia de Castro

"Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes, and an uncluttered mind."

- Rick Steve

"Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterwards."

- Tina Fey

"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."

- Martin Yan

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

- William Hazlitt

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

"The journey itself is my home."

- Bashō Matsuo

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

- John Steinbeck

"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

- John Berryman

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

- Francis Bacon

"A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time."

- Chelsea Handler

"The best way to know a city is to eat it."

- Scott Westerfeld