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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

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

—Mark Twain, 1894

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

—Saint Augustine, c. 390

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

—Robert Runcie, 1988

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

—Samuel Johnson, 1777

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

Travel 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, 1989

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944