Age Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

— Jose Rizal

A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

— Laurence Sterne

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

— Paul Fussell

Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.

— Josiah Tucker

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example…

— Jonathan Swift

Traveling has turned into a sort of lifestyle, I suppose.

— Peter Sunde

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they…

— Elias Canetti

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers…

— Jeff Kober

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know…

— Paul Theroux

“Traveling is sacred; mankind has traveled ever since the dawn of time, in search of hunting and grazing ground, or milder climates. Very few…

— Paulo Coelho

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into…

— Jan Morris