Another list.... a good one I think.... let's start our own.... Favorite Quotes

I like your topic!

Here's one that reminds me of the little unplanned interactions during travel that are some of the most pleasant reminders: "Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." - Samuel Johnson

And another enjoying the beauty of creation in travels: "Stuff your eyes with wonder; live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." - Ray Bradbury

Write drunk. Edit sober. Ernest Hemingway.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I
may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night. But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, it gives a lovely light. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
(make of it what you will!)

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”

― Anatole France

"TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth... ...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?

George Carlin

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

Mark Twain is simply one of my favorite authors. Would have enjoyed meeting him as most of what he had to say made so much sense, plus his humor is the best.

My inspiration to travel solo:

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

"Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

" They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream. "

Ernest Christopher Dowson

I couldn't resist - A favorite by another English poet that well makes the point about the urgency of travel - A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896.

II. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

Ms. Jo, I love that quote! It's been one of my favorites for a long time. Thanks for sharing it here.

I love travel quotes and they are SO TRUE! love the one about prejudice and narrow-minded.
"Cover the earth before it covers you."

"Life is an adventure, or it's nothing at all." Helen Keller

Another from a Robert Frost poem: I always say this when getting on an overseas flight.
"And miles to go before I sleep."

"Travel is the best money you spend, because it makes you richer."

"Don't regret growing older, as it's a privilege denied to many."

"The biggest mistake people make is thinking they have time."

The last one , Judy , how true .

Not specifically about travel, but a good thought when things don't go perfectly :
"From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success. "
(some Disney movie, maybe Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

"Begin doing what you want to do now,
We are not living in eternity.
We have only this moment
sparkling like a star in our hand --
and melting like a snowflake."

AND

"Don't postpone joy."

I have two, and they've been push-pinned to every work bulletin board I've had in the past 25 years:

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." Bertrand Russell

"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest." Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.--Cesare Pavese.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.--Henry David Thoreau

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.--Robert Louis Stevenson

Also love Ms. Jo's Mark Twain. The very best ever.

From the MSN list, I just love: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

My second favorite Mark Twain quote (the first is listed above): “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

About Venice: “Streets flooded. Please advise.” ― Robert Benchley

Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the places and moments that take our breath away.

Nice topic!
Below is a travel related one, and a general one (that could most certainly apply to travel if one so chooses):

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." - Invictus
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” - Rumi

I also like the Mark Twain quote about how travel is the way to figure out whether you like or hate someone. So true!

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." – Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit

"Everything you see, I owe entirely to spaghetti."-Sophia Loren

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

Like Judy mentions:

"Life is either a great adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller

These are words to live by for me.

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin Buber

In Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain also wrote:

"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad."

In a similar vein, 'Professor' Irwin Corey would often say,

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

"Further" - Ken Kesey

Ars longa, vita brevis. (Art is long, life is short.)