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Travel Quotes & Country Facts
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad (George Bernard Shaw)
Albanians shake their heads to say yes and usually not to say no ...
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- A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving (Lao Tzu)
- A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles (Tim Cahill)
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance (Anonymous)
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (Confucius)
- A traveler without observation is a bird without wings (Moslih Eddin Saadi)
- A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been
taking (Earl Wilson)
- All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware (Martin Buber)
- Every exit is an entry somewhere else (Tom Stoppard)
- Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the
office (Unknown)
- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me (Sigmund Freud)
- Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter (Izaak Walton)
- He that travels far know much
- He travels best that knows when to return (Thomas More)
- He who does not travel does not know the value of men (Moorish proverb)
- He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him (Spanish proverb)
- He who would travel happily must travel light (St.Exupery)
- I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the
world (Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey)
- I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I
have almost arrived (Anna Louise Strong)
- I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them (Mark Twain)
- I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list (Susan Sontag)
- I love to travel, but hate to arrive (Albert Einstein)
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train (Oscar Wilde)
- I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine (Caskie Stinnett)
- I won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because I won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation (Spalding Gray)
- I wonder if one of the most important steps on our journey is the one in which we throw away the map
- If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to
the airport (George Winters)
- If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough
to travel (Sir Vivian Fuchs)
- If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people,
you might better stay home (James Michener)
- In America, there are two classes of travel: first class, and with children (R. Benchley)
- It is far easier to travel than to write about it (David Livingstone)
- It is not down in any map; true places never are (Herman Melville)
- Laughter is an instant vacation (Milton Berle)
- Let your memory be your travel bag (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
- Life is short and the world is wide (Simon Raven)
- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen (Benjamin Disraeli)
- Long voyages, great lies (Italian proverb)
- Love to travel, but do not make the road your home
- Man plans ... God laughs (Old Hebrew saying)
- My home is where my furniture is (Anonymous expatriate)
- No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one (Elbert Hubbard)
- No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow (Lin Yutang)
- Old men and far travellers may lie with authority (Anonymous)
- On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy (Spanish proverb)
- One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind (Charles Dickens)
- One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things (Henry Miller)
- People don't take trips ... trips take people (John Steinbeck)
- People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home (Dagobert D. Runes)
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination (Roy M. Goodman)
- So much of who we are is where we have been (William Langewiesche)
- Somewhere on your journey, don't forget to turn around and enjoy the view
- Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey (Babs Hoffman)
- The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists (Sam Ewing)
- The beginning is always a good place to start
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart (Helen Keller)
- The careful foot can walk anywhere
- The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it (Rudyard Kipling)
- The happiest asks directions, even though he knows the way
- The journey not the arrival matters (T.S. Eliot)
- The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready (Henry David Thoreau)
- The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss
the train before (G.K. Chesterton)
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes (Marcel Proust)
- The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor (Unknown)
- The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack (George Ade)
- The traveler sees what he sees.
The tourist sees what he has come to see (G.K. Chesterton)
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down
a lot of the time (Colette)
- The world is a book. And those who don't travel only read a page (Saint-Augustine)
- The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you
as a tourist (Russell Baker)
- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for
a vacation trip (Unknown)
- To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries (Aldous Huxley)
- Travel broadens the mind and raises the spirits
- Travel is only glamorous in retrospect (Paul Theroux)
- Travel teaches how to see
- Travelers never think that they are the foreigners (Mason Cooley)
- Traveling is dancing lessons from God (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions (Peter Hoeg)
- Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries (René Descartes)
- Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy
- Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loand to you
by your children (Kenyan proverb)
- Trust in Allah, but tie your camel (Old Muslim Proverb)
- Two great talkers will not travel far together (Spanish proverb)
- Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings (Hodding Carter)
- Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go (Truman Capote)
- We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. But we're going back next year (Groucho Marx)
- We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment (Hilaire Belloc)
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money (Susan Heller)
- You can observe a lot by watching (Yogi Berra)
- You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube (Japanese saying)
More Interesting Facts
- Li is the most popular family name in the world
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the
world's widest road
- A fifth of Israel's landmass is national parks - there are 300 of them
- About one third of the earth's land surface is desert
- Afghanistan has the world's widest temperature range : -50° … 53°C
- Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
- Almost half of all the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China
- Almost half of Ecuador is protected
- Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States
and Canada
- Altough Tuvalu literally means "cluster of eight", there are nine islands in the nation
- Andorra, Macau and San Marino have the highest life expectancies in the world
- Andorrans are a minority in their own country, forming only about a quarter
of the population
- Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable
- Arround 6.000 languages are currently spoken in the world
- At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart
- Austria was the first country to use post cards
- Brazil takes up 47,8% of South America
- Brunei has a cattle station in Willaroo, Australia that is larger than the sultanate itself
- Canada has the longest coastline of any country: 90.325 km!
- Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do, approximately
150 people each year
- East Timor is the world's newest nation (2002)
- Finland is the least corrupt nation in the world
- France is with 75.500.000 arrivals the most visited country in the world
- French Guiana's rain forrest is 90% intact
- Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth with 3,7 metres of rain a year
- Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains
- Hong Kong consumes more oranges than anywhere else in the world
- Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
- If the river Congo's power could be harnassed, it would theoretically supply enough hydro-electricity to service all over Africa
- In 1950 there were only 82 recognized independent states in the world
- In 2001, there were 14.695 airports in the United States of America
- In American football, you are supposed to use your hands
- In Arica, Chile it would take a century to fill a cup of coffee with rain
(0,76 mm of rain a year)
- In Cambodia, the sun goes down between 5 and 6 pm regardless of the time of year
- In Djibouti, many Afar nomads still file their front teeth into ferocious-looking points
- In Iceland, it is forbidden for parents to bestow foreign-sounding names
on their children
- In most parts of Asia, it is taboo to touch people’s heads, especially those of children
- In New Zealand, chewing gum in public is considered impolite
- In New Zealand, there are four sheep for each pers | | | |
