Traveling and Leisure Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment

Seek home for rest, for home is best

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move

A wise traveler never despises his own country

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more

Travelling expands the mind rarely

He travels the fastest who travels alone

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad