All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Quotes
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCOne should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Traveling 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, 1797People 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, 1843After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935The 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, 1961For 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