Proverbs and sayings about travel. Aphorisms in English: phrases about life, success, nature, study. Funny Travel Quotes

If you travel around the world, you will certainly meet representatives of the UK in every country. And all because today they are one of the largest groups of tourists. The many years of experience of English travelers is reflected in all sorts of sayings, sayings and aphorisms, which we invite you to get acquainted with.

Idioms in English about travel

Cover a lot of ground - cover a long way;
Travel light – travel light, that is, with minimal luggage;
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive - it is better to travel with hope than to arrive;
To carry coals to Newcastle - transport coal to Newcastle.
Tourist trap is a vacation spot that is very popular among tourists.
So many countries, so many customs – As many countries there are, there are as many customs.

Many English sayings have a Russian equivalent. For example, the familiar phrase “they don’t interfere with someone else’s monastery with their own rules” sounds like “When at Rome, do as Romans do” from the British. And instead of “If you hurry, you’ll make people laugh,” you can safely use “It is better to turn back than go astray.” It is quite acceptable to replace the popular expression “A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a sitting hen loses feathers” (A stone that rolls will not be overgrown with moss, but a chicken that always sits in place, loses feathers).

Below we will present proverbs about travel in English that most clearly reflect the cultural characteristics of the people of Great Britain.

Untraveled youths have ever homely wits. Literally translated, the phrase sounds like this: Young people who have not traveled talk superficially. This means that traveling broadens our horizons, changes our consciousness, makes us think about things that we previously did not attach importance to, traveling makes us wiser, during which we must be much more attentive to our surroundings. There is another saying with a similar meaning: The word is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page(The world is a book, and whoever does not travel has read only one page of it).

A tree often transplanted is never loaded with fruit. Translation: The tree that is constantly replanted does not bear fruit. What is meant here is that a person who does not have a permanent place of residence or a home is not able to arrange his life, start a family, friends, or find a good, well-paid job.

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. The traveler who does not observe is a wingless bird. When a bird loses its wings, it loses the meaning of life, because its element is air and flight. With a damaged wing, she cannot fly away, hide from danger, or escape. Likewise, when a person travels, if he doesn’t watch, he can easily get lost, and he runs the risk of not finding his way back because he didn’t pay attention to his surroundings.

Youth likes to wander. Direct translation: Young people like to wander. In the United Kingdom, there is a wonderful custom when, before entering a higher education institution, a future student takes a so-called “gap year” and goes to travel the world. This time is considered the most suitable, since a person has not yet had time to start a family, take on obligations that prevent travel, he is absolutely free and open to new things.

The best journeys are not always in straight lines. The best adventures are not built on a route. Everything is very simple here, obviously, this saying was invented by avid adventurers, lovers of unusual sensations and difficult tasks. In their opinion, traveling is when you don’t have any plan, you just take it and hit the road, and then whatever happens.

In this article, we have collected inspiring quotes in English with translation into Russian that will help you get inspired, show off your erudition, or simply surprise your friends!

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
— Success is the path from defeat to defeat without losing enthusiasm.

The price of greatness is responsibility. The price of greatness is responsibility.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) - It doesn’t matter what you had “before” and what will happen “after”, what matters is what’s inside you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King) - A person's fortitude is tested not when everything is going well for him, but when he is going through difficult times. Martin Luther King

Every great achievement was once considered impossible. Every great achievement once seemed impossible.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Life is a flower for which love is honey.

No gain without pain. Without effort there is no achievement

Never look back. Never look back.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step.

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. The only thing in life that comes without effort is failure.

Ailure doesn’t mean I have wasted my life; it does mean that I have an excuse to start over. Failure doesn't mean I wasted my life. It means I have an excuse to start over. Robert H. Schuller - Robert Schuller

Live without regrets. Live without regrets.

Tempus neminem manet. Time waits for no one.

Ou know how to fly. never give up. Don't crawl if you can fly. Never give up.

quotes in English from Walt Disney: If you can dream it, you can do it. If you can imagine it, then you can do it.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. It's quite fun to do the impossible.

My life my rules. My life my rules.

Aut Viam Inveniam Faciam. Either I will find a way, or I will pave it myself.

“Everything you can imagine is real. Everything you can imagine is real.

Vincit qui se vincit. The most difficult victory is victory over yourself.

Don’t let your mind kill your heart and soul. Don't let your mind kill your heart and soul.

Now or never. Now or never.

Non progredi est regredi. Not going forward means going backwards .

I will get everything I want. I'll get everything I want.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Life is not about finding yourself. Life is the creation of yourself George Bernard Shaw.

This section contains inspiring quotes in English with translation into Russian. Which will give you strength on the way to your goal, or simply help you not to lose heart.

All my life I have loved aphorisms. Since childhood, I wrote them down in my notebooks and diaries. I re-read it constantly. I still read them now. In your old diaries, books, the Internet.

Wise thoughts... What do they give us? What is their attractive value? After all, they haven’t sunk into eternity these days, they have flowed into social networks, websites, blogs. They post, repost, and like many times. What funny words.... What are the fashionable motivators now? Who doesn’t read them as jokes, in which there is only a grain of joke, and a lot of interesting thoughts and ideas.

We find something of ourselves in them. We seem to confirm to ourselves the correctness of our internal beliefs. Aphorisms for us, but we are already in them....

Today I want to present to you 50 aphorisms about life and travel. My favorite topic. And the theme of my “Diary of a Successful Mom,” where the subtitle to the name of the blog is an apt, slightly humorous phrase: “Life is a journey, and the journey is life!”

Aphorisms about life and travel

I travel not to arrive somewhere, but to go. The main thing is movement. © Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, as the greatest science and serious science, helps us find ourselves again. © Albert Camus

It is not necessary to live. Travel is essential.© William Burroughs

Travel reveals not so much our curiosity about what we are going to see, but rather our weariness from what we are leaving behind. ©Alphonse Karr

I now understand that the surest way to find out whether you like a person or not is to go traveling with him. © Mark Twain

Travel is like marriage. The main misconception is to think that you have control over them.© John Steinbeck

Life is a journey. Choose who to go with! © Petr Soldatenkov

It is not guided tours that come to God, but lonely travelers. © Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a journey. For some it’s a trip to the bakery and back, for others it’s a trip around the world. © Khabensky K.

Love for a particular city is determined by the feelings that one had to experience in it, and not by the city itself. © Marlene Dietrich

Three things make a person happy: love, interesting work and the opportunity to travel. © Ivan Bunin

All journeys go in circles. I rode around Asia, writing a parabola on one of the hemispheres of our planet. In short, a trip around the world is just a journey for a curious person back home.© Paul Theroux

Traveling means debunking other people's misconceptions about other countries. © Aldous Huxley

A train ticket raises more expectations than a lottery ticket. © Paul Moran

No adventure-rich journey will be forgotten. Travels without adventure are not worth devoting books to. © Lewis Carroll

– Are you guys going somewhere or are you just driving? – We didn’t understand the question, and it was a damn good question.© Jack Kerouac

When you travel without knowing English, you begin to understand what it means to be born deaf and dumb. © Philippe Bouvard

A tourist, as soon as he arrives somewhere, immediately begins to want to return. And the traveler... He may not return...© Paul Bowles

A good traveler does not have precise plans or intentions to get somewhere. © Lao Tzu

To be able to manage your leisure time wisely is the highest level of civilization. © Bertrand Russell

My opinion about travel is brief: when traveling, don’t go too far, otherwise you’ll see something that will be impossible to forget later... © Daniil Kharms

The traveler sees what he sees; a tourist is what he wants to see. © Gilbert Keith Chesteron

The benefit of travel is the opportunity to adapt your imagination to reality, and, instead of thinking how things should be, see things as they are.© Samuel Johnson

It's not people who make trips; it's trips that create people.© John Steinbeck

Don't tell me how educated you are - just tell me how much you've traveled. © Muhammad

Half the fun of traveling is the aesthetic of being lost. © Ray Bradbury

Travel only with those who are your equal or better. If there are none, travel alone. © Dhamapada

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. © Saint Augustine

Each journey has its own secret destination, about which the traveler himself has no idea. © Martin Buber

Traveling has its benefits. If a traveler visits the best countries, then he can learn how to improve his own. If fate takes him to worse countries, he can learn to love his country. © Samuel Johnson

In twenty years, you will regret more not what you did, but what you didn’t do. So throw off the knots and sail out of the quiet harbors. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Open it up. © Mark Twain

Well, where we do not. We are no longer in the past, and it seems beautiful. © From the notebooks of A. Chekhov

Sometimes one day spent in other places gives more than ten years of life at home. © Anatole France

If a person remains the same on a journey, it is a bad journey. © Ernst Simon Bloch

People get to know each other through argument and on the road. © George Wells Herbert

You are a traveler. Don’t say: I have such and such a city, and I have such and such. No one has a city; city - mountain (in heaven); and the present is the way. And we travel every day as long as nature moves. © John Chrysostom

The highest goal of travel is not to see a foreign country, but to see your own country as a foreign country. © Gilbert Chesterton

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. After that, take half the clothes and twice the money. © Susan Heller

Trains are amazing; I still adore them. Traveling by train means seeing nature, people, cities and churches, rivers - in essence it is a journey through life. © Agatha Christie. Autobiography

Time constantly surprises us; it is impossible to get used to its tricks. The vacation ends as soon as it begins: as soon as you check into the hotel, it’s time to head back. But once you return, it feels like you haven't been home for ages. © Claudia Hammond. Distorted time

Sometimes, constant grammar lessons in a foreign language bore even the most purposeful enthusiasts, and no amount of motivation helps to return the desire to study. But this does not mean that you have to give up everything or force yourself to continue studying. You just need to change your approach to studying for a while. It’s not grammar alone, you know, that keeps colloquial speech alive. Therefore, today we have a rather original, and most importantly useful, topic - aphorisms in English.

We will revive our desire for knowledge with the help of motivating phrases and inspiring sayings. Accordingly, in parallel with working on our mood, we will significantly increase our vocabulary and, on occasion, will be able to boast to our interlocutor of our knowledge of English catchphrases and idioms.

Aphorisms in English - wisdom, wit and morality in the most concise form

Throughout the history of mankind, the world has known many great thinkers and brilliant people. Some of them remained unknown to modern descendants, while others left famous works containing wise thoughts about life, love, education, relationships, etc. as a gift to future generations. Subsequently, quotes from these works spread throughout the world, and have their own analogues for each country. Today we’ll look at how these popular aphorisms sound in English.

Of course, we will not limit ourselves only to classic quotes, because our contemporaries can also boast of interesting expressions. Also, many phrases come into use thanks to modern films and books. So, there are many categories waiting for us, so everyone will find their own motivating and inspiring phrases in English.

Wise sayings about life

At all times, people have tried to understand themselves, society, the purpose of the existence of this world. But only an outstanding thinker can notice important things in a series of gray everyday life. In this section we will present wise sayings about the structure of the world that were left behind by great philosophers, scientists, writers and other famous figures from various historical eras, as well as unknown authors.

These motivational and smart phrases about life can encourage you and encourage you to discover something new in your life. Some will think that such sayings are too pretentious, while others will be lucky enough to find here the greatest saying, which has become the motto of their entire life. In any case, we present these phrases in English with translation, and we hope that they will not leave anyone indifferent.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. —The desire to win, the thirst for success, the desire to reach your full potential - these are the keys that open the door to personal self-improvement.
Follow your heart. — Follow your heart.
The mind is everything. What do you think you become. —Mind is everything. What you think about is what you become.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. —A child who is afraid of the dark can easily be forgiven, but adults hiding from the light is the real drama of life.
If you let your past go, it doesn’t mean that your past will let you go. —If you have renounced your past, this does not mean that your past has renounced you.
When you start thinking a lot about your past, it becomes your present and you can’t see your future without it. —When you start thinking about the past, it turns into your present, behind which you cannot see the future.
Wisdom is knowing how little we know. —Wisdom is understanding how little we know.
Everyone experienced something that changed him. —Everyone has gone through something that changed them.
We do not remember days, we remember moments. —We don't remember days, we remember moments.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. —Real life is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.
He, who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man. —The one who awakens the beast within himself no longer feels how painful it is to be human.
Everyone has one's own path. —Everyone has their own path.
Trying about happiness of others, we find our own happiness. —By trying to make others happy, we find our own happiness.
When in doubt, tell the truth. —Whendoubt it -speakthe truth.
When life gives you lemons, drink tequila! —When life gives you lemons, drink tequila!
Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate —Each of us is the creator of our own destiny.

Phrases about love and relationships

Everyone has probably noticed the glamorous and fashionable phrases about love on the pages of popular social networks? Agree, they often reek of falsehood and insincerity. To feel a real experience and express it in a short phrase is a rare success that does not happen to everyone. We have selected the most sincere and best phrases about love in English with translation, capable of warming cold hearts and awakening the brightest feeling in them.

We hate the ones we love because they can cause the deepest suffering. —We hate those we love because they can cause us the most severe suffering.
All we need is love. —All we need is love.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. —Keep love in your heart. Life without love is like a garden flooded with sunlight in which all the flowers have died.
Never compare your love story with those in the movies, because they are written by scriptwriters. YoursiswrittenbyGod. — Never compare your love story with romances in movies, because they are written by screenwriters. yoursLovewritesGod.
The best thing in our life is love. —The best thing in our life is love.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. —It was love at first sight, at last sight, at the most eternal sight.
If you wish to be loved, love! —If you want to be loved, love!
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —You yourself, as much as anything in the universe, need your own love and affection.
When love is not madness it is not love. —If love is not crazy, it is not love.
To love is not to look at one another, but to look in the same direction. —To love is not to look at each other, but to look in the same direction.
Love is my religion. —Love -Thismyreligion.
True love stories never have endings. —Real love stories never end.
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. —It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Phrases about friendship

Friendship is the most important phenomenon of life, so it is not surprising that there are many catchphrases with meaning about it. In friendships, anything can happen: loyalty, help, betrayal, hypocrisy, and much more. This whole range of feelings can be expressed with the help of small stable expressions. Let's look at what aphorisms, idioms and short phrases the English language contains on the topic of friendship.

The best mirror is an old friend. —OldFriend -the bestmirror.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. —Forgiving an enemy is much easier than forgiving a friend.
Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. —All people seem normal until you get to know them.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. —It's easy to be friendly with people you don't care about.
Be loyal to the one who is loyal to you. —Trust someone who trusts you.
It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers. —It is better to be in chains with friends than in the garden, but with enemies.
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. —A friend is someone who is here for you now, although he would prefer to be in another place.
A road to a friend’shouse is never long. —The road to a friend's house is never long.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. —There is only one way to find friends - to become a friend yourself.
A faithful friend is a medicine of life. —LoyalFriend -medicinelife.
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet. —Mountain does not converge with mountain, but man always converges with man.
When a friend asks there is no tomorrow. —When a friend asks, “tomorrow” does not exist.
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. —Anyone who is looking for friends without flaws will not find anyone.
Books and friends should be few but good. —Books and friends should be few, but good ones.

Catchphrases from films and books

Classics of literature or world cinema have long been disassembled into quotes. And from popular new products, young people often pick up cool English words and dialogues of the characters. Of course, we are more familiar with catchphrases from films in English thanks to the high-quality work carried out by Russian translators. But it’s never too late to study the classics in their original language, so we bring to your attention aphorisms and phrases in English that have become part of common speech from movies and books.

I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. —I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. (Godfatherfather)
Houston, we have a problem! —Houston, we have a problem! (Apollo 17)
I'll be back. —II'll be back. (Terminator)
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for them -Don't ask for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for you (For whom the bell tolls)
Well, nobody's perfect. —Well, no one's perfect/Everybody's got their flaws (We're from jazz)
Elementary, mydearWatson! — Elementary Watson! (Sherlock Holmes)
May the force be with you. —May the force be with you. (Stellarwar)
A martini. Shaken, not stirred. —One martini. Shake but do not mix. (James Bond)
My dear, I don’ t give a damn. — My darling, I don't care. (Gone With the Wind)
Keepyourfriendsclose, butyourenemiescloser. — Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. (Godfather)
Youshallnotpass. — You shall not pass. (Lord of the Rings)
To be, or not to be: that is the question. —To be or not to be - that is the question.
Everythingbeginswithchoice. — It all starts with choice. (Matrix)
Run, Forrest, run! — Run, Forrest, run!
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold. — Revenge is a dish that is served cold. (Godfather)

Aphorisms about success, motivation, inspiration

Everyone knows that a word can inspire decisive actions and motivate a person to become better and achieve a certain goal. Such a concept as a “motivating quote” is actively used in trainings related to completely different areas of activity: business, psychology, sports. An example of the life philosophy of successful people, the best in their profession, is a good way to increase your own motivation. Here are phrases that will inspire you to conquer new heights.

Failure does not mean I have wasted my life; It does mean that I have an excuse to start over. —Failure doesn't mean I wasted my life. This is just a reason to start over.
There is nothing scary in the darkness, if you encounter it face-to-face. —There is nothing scary in the dark if you face it.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. —It doesn't matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop.
Lost time is never found again. —Lost time will never come back.
Success is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perception. —In success, only one percent is inspiration, the remaining 99% is hard work.
Respect the past, create the future. —Respect the past, build the future.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. —You will miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Future is purchased by the present —Future purchased V present.
Everything is possible if you just believe. —Anything is possible, you just have to believe in it.
Success is not in what you have, but who you are. —Success is not what you have, but what you are.
If I ever surrender, it’ll happen only in mercy to the winner. —If I ever give up, it will be out of mercy to the winner.
Do not squander time – this is stuff life is made of. —Don't waste your time, because that's what life is made of.
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. —Failure is the only thing in life that comes without effort.
Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest. —Don't give up, starting is always hard.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Success consists of moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Sayings about spring and nature

The time of year also influences mood. The spring season is a period of awakening inspiration for activity in all living nature. Even in the dull autumn or frosty winter, sayings about spring will lift your spirits and put you in a working mood. Let's look at idioms, catch phrases and aphorisms in the English language about spring and nature.

A kind word is like a spring day. —A kind word is like a spring day.
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart —It may be winter outside, but there is eternal spring in my heart.
An optimist is the human personification of spring. —Optimism is the human personification of spring.
Spring time is nature at its best. —Spring is nature at its best.
Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain. —Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
All art is an imitation of nature. —All art is an imitation of nature.
Spring breathes new life into the world around us. —Spring breathes new life into the world around us.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. —No winter lasts forever, because no spring misses its turn.
After rain comes fair weather. —After the rain comes great weather.
It's raining cats and dogs. —Rain cats and dogs.
Wisdomcomeswithwinters. — Wisdom comes with the beginning of winter.

About studying and foreign languages

And finally, let's move on to our main topic - learning foreign languages. After all, there are also many motivating and philosophical phrases about the educational process. Let's study stable expressions about science, knowledge and proficiency in a foreign language.

Exampleisn't`tanotherwaytoteach,itistheonlywaytoteach. —Example is not one of the teaching methods, but the only way to teach.
Language is the dress of thought. —Language is the clothing of thoughts.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. —Anyone who does not know foreign languages understands nothing of his own language.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. —Teachers open the door, but you must enter it yourself.
Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. —Language makes us perceive the world as a person presents it to us.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. —The limitation of my language means the limitation of my world.
How many languages you know - that many times you are a person. —How many languages you know - so many times you have realized yourself as a person.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. —Thinking limited by language is a prison.
A different language is a different vision of life. —Different languages mean different visions of life.
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. —An education diploma helps build a life. Self-education helps you catch your luck.
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worth. —Not knowing is bad, but not wanting to know is even worse.
Languages are not strangers to one another. —The languages are not alien to each other.
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. —Money invested in education always pays off.
It is never too late to learn. —It's never too late to learn.
If you can't say something nice, say it in French. —If you can't say something nice, express yourself in French.
To have another language is to possess a second soul. —Having a second language is like having a second soul.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. —Life is a foreign language: everyone pronounces it wrong.
One`s work may be finished someday, but one`s education never. —Work can be finished any day, education never ends.