TRAVEL AND TOURISM QUOTES"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." – Lao Tzu "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." – St. Augustine "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – GK Chesterton “I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” – Anais Nin “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 'sight-seeing.'" – Daniel J Boorstin “The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.” – Susan Sontag “The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist” – Paul Richard “The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.” – Daniel J Boorstin “The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.” – Sam Ewing “If it’s tourist season, why can’t we kill them?” – unknown “The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.” – Max Lerner “The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.” – Agnes Repplier “My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.” – Diane Arbus "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 "There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it." – Charles Dudley Warner "Without travel 'I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.'" – Lauren Hutton "Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way." – Milton Glaser "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller "Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries." – René Descartes "Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." – Miriam Beard "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." – Caskie Stinnett "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." – John Steinbeck "In America, there are two classes of travel: First class, and with children." – Robert Benchley "To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel." – Fran Lebowitz "But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?" – Noel Coward "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones." – Anne Sophie Swetchine "Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting." – Robert Thomas Allen "Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations." – Elizabeth Drew "If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel." – Will Kommen "Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." – Samuel Johnson "Long voyages, great lies." – Italian proverb "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." – Susan Heller "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." – Lao Tzu "Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." – Hodding Carter "He who would travel happily must travel light." – Antoine de St. Exupery "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." – James Michener "Let your memory be your travel bag." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." – Fitzhugh Mullan "No matter where you go, there you are." – unknown "If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there." – unknown "Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." – Frank Herbert "He travels fastest who travels alone." – proverb "Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." – Izaak Walton “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien "The journey not the arrival matters." – TS Eliot "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." – Lin Yutang "They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea." – Horace "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." – Mark Twain "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." – Tim Cahill "Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." – Benjamin Disraeli "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." – Jawaharal Nehru "One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone". – Erma Bombeck "Travel is only glamorous in retrospect". – Paul Theroux "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there". – Yogi Berra "Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage". – Regina Nadelson "When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back." – WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman "A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car." – Emile Ganest "Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don’t have film." – unknown "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." – Clifton Fadiman "'Travel is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in the mid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease – its scientific name is travelitis furiosus – is carried by a germ called prosperity." – George Mikes. "People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home." – Dagobert D. Runes "To travel is to possess the world". – Burton Holmes "To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance." – Philip Andrew Adams "The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist". – Russell Baker "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." – Mohammed "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language". – Mark Twain "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places". – Henny Youngman "The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory". – unknown "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine". – Caskie Stinnett "A traveler without observation is a bird without wings". – Moslih Eddin Saadi "Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey". – E Heine "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad." – George Bernard Shaw "There are three critical states of human life: illness, captivity and travel". – E Heine "There is nothing safer than flying – it's crashing that is dangerous". – Theo Cowan "Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye". – Terry Hanson "If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport". – George Winters "I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on." – Jean Kerr "It is not down in any map; true places never are". – Herman Melville "The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking". – George Ade "Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station". – Lisa St Aubin de Teran "The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass". – Mark Twain "I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists." – Brigitte Bardot "For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes." – Charles Baudelaire |