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Traveler Quotes by Paul Theroux
- It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist…
- The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem…
- Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
- A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
- Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather…
- The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:…
- I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
More Traveler Quotes
- Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. — William Blake
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him… — Bill Brandt
- Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men… — Bill Bryson
- All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
- We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to… — Paul Cellucci
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing… — Augustus Toplady
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard
- It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux
- And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham