How many times have you been in a hostel and you’ve seen “inspirational” travel quotes adorning its walls, sometimes written behind the back of a toilet door? What about those travel blogs who over-use words from great writers to illustrate their point, often blatantly misquoting or attributing something to someone who never actually said it in the first place? Or how about that one friend on Facebook who insists on continuously posting pictures of a tree and a sunset with vomit-inducing text to make you feel better about yourself?!
All joking aside, there are some incredible travel quotes out there, there are some mediocre ones, and there are those that should never have been uttered in the first place and we’ll lose our minds if we see one more person with it tattooed on their ankle. Here we take a look at some of the best and worst travel quotes out there.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
It’s astounding to think that – in spite of this wonderful research tool we call the internet – people still believe this was said by Mark Twain. We’re sure you’ll lose count of how many times you’ll see it when you’re on the road, usually misquoted, and almost always attributed incorrectly. If you don’t believe us, google it and look at the images. It was in actual fact written in H. Jackson Brown Jr’s book P.S. I Love You and spoken by his mother. Doesn’t quite carry the same prestige though.