Travel quotes

“Don’t tell me how educated you are,
tell me how much you have travelled.”
– The Prophet Mohammed

“Man cannot discover new oceans
unless he has the courage to lose sights of the shore.”
– Andre Gide

“Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do…
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”
– Hilaire Belloc

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not;
but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious)
will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Death is more universal than life;
everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
– Alan Sachs

“A ship is safe in harbor,
but that’s not what ships are built for.”
– John A. Shedd

“The world is a book
and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go.
But no matter, the road is life.”
– Jack Kerouac

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Atlantic to Pacific overland. A motorcycle trip from Ghent to the east in the summer of 2013…