“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ”

“Travel broadens the mind. Travel shrinks the wallet. Travel shrivels the testicles.”

“They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.”

“Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.”

“Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.”

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”