The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Quotes
In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944Traveling 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, 1797Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989The 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, 1961See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980