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Part of the fun in traveling is getting to explore all the new places out there. There's
no way that you can expect to see everything in just one trip - could you imagine seeing everything in
your own country in one go? Let our reviews help guide you to the places you must visit and the places
to stay away from...
A lot of people have said a lot of great things about traveling... Here are some of
our favorite quotes - we've even thrown in a few of our own for good measure...
Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
- Thomas Nashe
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Ellen Parr
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"He who does not travel does not know the value of men."
- Moorish proverb
". . .the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home."
- Paul Theroux
". . .travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
- Miriam Beard
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. "
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
- Paul Theroux
"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 journey not the arrival matters."
- T.S. Eliot
"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
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
- Charles Dickens
"The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster."
- Martha Gellman
"On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy."
- Spanish proverb
"I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value."
- Christopher Fry (b.1970) British playwright
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
- Susan Sontag
"Jet lag is for amateurs."
- Dick Clark
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance."
- Anonymous
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
- Oscar Wilde
"But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?"
- Noel Coward
"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
Benjamin Disraeli
"I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."
William Hazlitt
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