Michael Palin Quotes

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.