I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. 12

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Take the Money and Run.

Do not plan long journeys, because whatever you believe in you have already seen.When a thing is everywhere, the way to find it is not to travel but to love.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
Quoted in Ingrid Cranfield  The Challengers (1976).

In America there are two classes of travelöfirst class, and with children.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
  Pluck and Luck.

Voyager, c'est bien utile,  c° a fait travailler l'imagination. Tout le reste n'est que de¤  ceptions et fatigues. Notre voyage a'   nous est entie'  rement imaginaire.Voila'   sa force. To travel is useful. It engages the imagination. Everything else is deceitful and boring.Our own voyage is entirely imaginary. And therein lies its force.

-Destouches
  Voyage au bout de la nuit ( Journey to the End of Night, translated by John H P Marks,1960).

Of all the pleasures in the world, travel is (in my opinion) the sweetest and most delightful.

-Coryate,Thomas
Coryat's Crudities Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths' Travells.

   You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  Travels with Myself and  Another.

The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here todayöin next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumpedöalways somebody else's horizon!

-Grahame, Kenneth
   Toad rhapsodizes about the motor car. The Wind in the Willows, ch.2.

Writing and travel broadenyourassif not yourmindand I like to write standing up.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter, 9  Jul.

The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great† The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesöthere isgreater presence of mind† The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.

-Livingstone, Dr David
Collected in H  Waller (ed)  The Last  Journals of David Livingstone in Central  Africa; continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi (1874).

Good travel books are novels at heart.

-Raban,Jonathan
Recalled by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Jan1987, reviewing Raban's novel Coasting (1986).

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  TheValleys of theAssassins and other PersianTravels.

For my part,Itravel not to go anywhere, but to go.Itravel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Travels with a Donkey,'Cheylard and Luc'.

To travel hopefully is a better thing thantoarrive, and the true success is to labour.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'El Dorado'.

   I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Ulysses' (published1842), l.6^24.

Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

-Theroux, Paul Edward
  The Great Railway Bazaar, ch.21.

Travel is fatal to prejudice.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  The Innocents Abroad, conclusion.

Iwill not permitthirtymentotravelfourhundredmilesto agitate a bag of wind.

-White, Andrew Dickson
On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of the Open Road', section1.