Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. – Peter Hoeg
I’ve learned a lot from traveling. One main lesson is that usually what you have planned won’t always go down exactly like how you wanted it to go so you need to be prepared for lots of mishaps. But the best part about those experiences is that it stays in your and your travel companions’ memories forever. I can even go back and laugh about a lot of those experiences.
These funny travel quotes I’ve listed below are all relatable and hilarious. One of my favorites is “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” I know this for a fact after traveling for two years around the world with my parents and brother. There were some moments that just made certain emotions come out that would’ve never shown up in any other circumstance.
Here’s a list of funny travel quotes, some of which I hope will make you laugh.
1. Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty
2. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac
3. No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be. – Chuck Thompson
4. I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. – Charles Bukowski
5. The best tourist is one without a camera. – Kamand Kojouri
6. Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. – Peter Hoeg
7. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. – George Harrison
8. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous
9. I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful. – Justina Chen Headley
10. The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. – Britney Spears
11. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – Thomas Fuller
12. We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. – Konrad Adenauer
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13. Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. – Shane Koyczan
14. Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God. – Kurt Vonnegut
15. I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop. – Blake Mycoskie
16. Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection. – Edward Streeter
17. I travel a lot. I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett
18. I love to travel, but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein
19. Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible. – Edward Readicker-Henderson
20. Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost. – Tracy Johnston
21. Put down that map and get wonderfully lost. – Anonymous
22. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton
23. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to. – Melody Truong
24. Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. – Paula McLain
25. You have to taste a culture to understand it. – Deborah Cater
26. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux
27. In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children. – Robert Benchley
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28. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain
29. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
30. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
31. A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. – Emile Ganest
32. When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. – Ryan Adams
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33. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain
34. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
35. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck
36. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux
37. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. – Paulo Coelho
38. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener
39. I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage. – Bob Hope
40. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
41. Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. – Robin Leach
42. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
43. Adventure without risk is Disneyland. – Doug Coupland
44. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. – Susan Heller
45. He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery
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46. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – Thomas Fuller
47. Travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes
48. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Scott Cameron
49. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. – Susan Sontag
50. Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. – Mercedes Lackey
51. Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. – Elizabeth Drew
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