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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”

—Daniel Boorstin, 1961

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

—Brigitte Bardot, 1989

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

—Robert Burton, c. 1620

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—Mark Twain, 1894

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

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

—Saint Augustine, c. 390

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797