Miss Footloose has a collection of quotations related to travel and life abroad and hopes you might find in the selection below a bit of comfort, wisdom or humor to sustain you in your daily struggles.
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust
I traveled a great deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it’s their country and they got a right to run it like they want to. – Will Rogers
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. – Bill Bryson
If you look like your passport picture, you’re too ill to travel – Will Kommen
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expatriate bankers and their girlfriends – Mick Jagger
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra
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When one realizes that one’s life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. – Edward Dahlberg
It’s an amazing country. Nearly everyone who lives there is an expatriate. It’s like a fairyland. – Pan Howell
(Must be Dubai…?)
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary. – Oscar Wilde
Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter
Photo by Tela Chhe
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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
– Dave Barry
The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Catalan bookstore owner in Macondo
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I love you travel quotes. Some are really funny and there are definitely some I will copy to my little notebook..
I love Bill Bryson’s and Will Roger’s quotes! Somewhere, I have a few good ones stashed away, but my mind is too numb from excessive teaching.
Haha the passport one! I look like a zombie!
I have always loved the quote about “roots and wings”. Thanks for sharing these! I am always in the mood for travelling…for now it will have to be virtual, only!
Greetings from Italy
I saw your comments on Monkeys on the Roof and came to pay you a visit. I like your travel quotes. I already used the one by Proust on one of my post. How about this one: “Travel: “Is not this the true romantic feeling – not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?“ – Tom Wolfe. I am intrigued by all the countries where you lived. I shall be back to read more of your past posts.
Some interesting and funny travel quotes.