(254 quotes found)
“Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
Paul Theroux
“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”
Brigitte Bardot
“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 world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.”
Robert Fulghum
“If you can please people's hearts in Africa and Japan, then you're part of the world's family... not a tourist.”
Carlos Santana
“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."”
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”
Russell Baker
“The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.”
Sam Ewing
“The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.”
Agnes Repplier
