Mark Twain Travel Quotations

None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.