“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”
—Paul Fussell
April 2012
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“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
—Clifton Fadiman
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
—Dagobert D. Runes
“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
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
—Aldous Huxley
