Travel Advantages Quotes & Sayings

Even under more ingratiating conditions than rocket travel, this new conquest has already disclosed drawbacks quite as remarkable as its advantages. On a transcontinental flight by a jet plane approaching super-sonic speed, the actual trip is so cramped, so dull, so vacuous, that the only attraction the air lines dare to offer are those vulgar experiences one can have by walking to the nearest cabaret, restaurant, or cinema: liquor, food, motion pictures, luscious stewardesses. Only a lurking sense of fear and the possibility of a grisly death help restore the sense of reality. — Lewis Mumford

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. — Samuel Johnson

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling. — Henry David Thoreau

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind — Hilaire Belloc

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel. — Pete McCarthy