What would happen if you took some of the most inspiring travel quotes and translated them from English to another language and then to another and then to another and then to another… and then back to English?

Well, that’s exactly what we have done and we now proudly present:

 

The top 10 most inspiring and badly translated travel quotes

 

10. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

Bad Translation: “Serious errors, poor mental illness alone”.

 

9. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

Bad translation: “Explore the world without reading.”

 

8. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Bad Translation: “From around the world. That’s good.”

 

7. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

Bad translation: “Status of comments on the impact of bad software is carried out. Instead, consider how you can find.”

 

6. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad translation: “Do the Middle East, where to go and sign”

 

5. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

Bad translation: “In addition, the accessories, however, are two ways to live.”

 

4. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

Bad translation: “Passengers forced people.”

 

3. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

Bad translation: “You do not have a place.”

 

2. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R Tolkien

Bad translation: “You will lose all the time.”

 

1. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

Bad translation: “Well, twice in the forest and found very little.”

 

Do you have any favorite travel quotes? Leave them on the comments below and we’ll give you a bad translation. Or, better yet, translate your own and post your results. The more languages you use, the better!

 

Photo credits (from flickr):
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9. by AleBonvini
8. by Mobilephotos@heidenstrom
7. by Hot Meteor
6. by Dino ahmad ali
5. by nromagna
4. by neil alejandro
3. by atomicjeep
2. by abhisawa
1. by jon smith.