"The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking." - George Ade, Forty Modern Fables

"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any." - Emma Albani

"Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here, after seeing Italy." - Fanny Burney, Cecilia

"The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before." - G. K. Chesterton

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

"A wise traveller never despises his own country." - Carlo Goldoni

"I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home." - William Hazlitt

"One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." - Seneca

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." - Elwyn Brooks White

"The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in." - Clarke, Arthur C.

"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant 'idiot'." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Color of Magic'