13 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Travel

Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes on travel

1. Following the Equator (1897)

3. Life on the Mississippi (1883)

67. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

68. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

76. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration - and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.

85. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

93. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

115. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

130. The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me.

157. If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

175. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

188. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

204. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.