Here are some fun and humorous travel quotes that you should take along with you on your next trip. Some you may have heard of and others may surprise you.
- “Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”
W C Fields - “Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Ernest Hemingway - “I want to travel. Maybe I’ll end up living in Norway, making cakes.”
Eva Green - “Don Quixote’s ‘Delusions’ is an excellent read – far better than my own forthcoming travel book, ‘Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.’”
Arthur Smith - “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” (Eh?)
Kurt Vonnegut - “I didn’t notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.”
Douglas Adams - “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
Ray Bradbury - “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason”
Jerry Seinfeld - “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Albert Einstein - “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.”
Douglas Adams - “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”Erma Bombeck
- “Never take a cross country trip with a kid who has just learned to whistle.”
Jean Deuel - “There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”
Patricia Harris and David Lyon - Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew - “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
Dagobert D. Runes - “Remember: Don’t Insult the Alligator till after you cross the river.”
Old Haitian proverb - “Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.”
Dave Barry - “The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.”
Gilbert K Chesterton - “My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.” Terry Pratchett
- “I went on a road trip with my cat, Cap’n. I would have let him drive, but he was drunk.”
Jarod Kintz - “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
Earl Wilson - “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”
Al Gore - “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.”
Britney Spears - “We can’t stop here, this is bat country!”
Hunter S Thompson - “You can’t see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.”
Japanese saying
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Born in Belfast and now living in London, Julie McNamee is involved in internet marketing as a day job and blogging as a hobby. She’s interested in all things quirky and Fortean, as well as art, photography and theatre. Her blog Quirky Travel, specializes in London and Paris top tips and off the beaten path information with subjects such as London film locations and unusual Paris museums.
