Famous Quotes about Travel and Tourism (120 Quotations)

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

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.

I was disappointed in Niagara — most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel.

In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children.

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

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.