Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, read more

Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life read more

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.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce read more

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself read more

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.