Top 20 Travel Quotes

OK, so I know I talked about starting Top Ten lists, but travel quotes are just too good to limit them to 10! So here are 20 of my all-time favorite travel quotes. They have the ability to inspire, comfort, motivate, and invigorate... I hope that at least a few will speak to you!

1. "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." James Michener
   
   
2. "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Robert Louis Stevenson



3. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
   
4. "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Mark Twain
   
   
5. "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." Aldous Huxley
   


6. "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." Susan Heller
   
   
7. "People don’t take trips – trips take people." John Steinbeck
   


8. "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." St. Augustine
   
   
9. "The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." G.K. Chesterton
   


10. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by." Robert Frost
    


11. "Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." Frank Herbert
    


12. "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." Caskie Stinnett
    


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


14. "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." Seneca
    


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


16. "A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." Moslih Eddin Saadi
    


17. "Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves." Euripides
    


18. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain



19. "The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them." Amelia Barr
    
    And of course, my favorite:
    
    
20. "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." Susan Sontag
    

If you have favorites of your own, please post them in the comments section!