Travel And Tourism Quotes

• Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

  Saadi

  Travel, Heart, Cities

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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  Traveling 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 Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Travel

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• 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

  Travel, Moving, Greatness

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Travel, Men

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Travel, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

  Mark Foley

  Country, Travel, New York

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• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Travel, Home

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country”, p.24

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• There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

  Graham Lowe

  Sports, Travel, Team

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

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Travel, Carpe Diem

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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