Quotes on Sightseeing

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.