Vacations Quotes

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.-- Lao Tzu

 

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.-- Morris Fishbein

 

A travel adventure has no substitute. It is the ultimate experience, your one big opportunity for flair.-- Rosalind Massow

 

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.-- Kahlil Gibran

 

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.-- Moslih Eddin Saadi

 

A trip is what you take when you can’t take anymore of what you’ve been taking.-- Adeline Ainsworth

 

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it. -- Marcelene Cox

 

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.-- Author Unknown

 

A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.-- Hal Chadwicke

 

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.-- Earl Wilson

 

Adventures are to the adventurous.-- Benjamin Disraeli

 

Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.-- Stephen Wright

 

Be an explorer. The universe is filled with wonder and magical things.-- Flavia

 

Better to ask twice than lose your way once.-- Danish Proverb

 

Find what brings you joy and go there.-- Jan Phillips

 

For travel to be delightful, one must have a good place to leave and return to.-- Frederick B. Wilcox

 

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.-- Chinese Proverb

 

I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journeyuntil I have almost arrived.-- Anna Louise Strong

 

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

 

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.-- Shirley MacLaine

 

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.-- James Michener

 

Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.-- David Allen

 

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.-- Diane Ackerman

 

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.-- Ursula K. LeGuin

 

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.-- Elbert Hubbard

 

No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.-- Jewish Proverb

 

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers... the mind can never break off from the journey.-- Author Unknown

 

There is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.-- Mark Twain

 

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.-- Nelson Mandela

 

Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.-- Author Unknown

 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.-- Gustave Flaubert

 

Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.-- Rene' Descartes

 

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.-- Jan Myrdal

 

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as well as a person.-- Alec Waugh

 

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.William James

Don't skip your vacations and breaks. Spend your breaks meditating, praying or reading. Don't bring work or your laptop with you on vacation.Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman

 

Laughter is an instant vacation.Milton Berle

 

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!Catherine Pulsifer

 

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.Robert Orben

 

Vacations often go to fast! Enjoy every minute!Catherine Pulsifer

 

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.Earl Wilson

 

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.Morris Fishbein

 

You don't need to spend a lot of money to have a vacation....enjoy the simple things in life.Catherine Pulsifer

 

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.Elbert Hubbard

 

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard

 

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. - Morris Fishbein

 

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. - Earl Wilson

 

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. - Author Unknown

 

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. - Robert Orben

 

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. - Margaret Laurence

 

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. - Robertson Davies

 

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. - Author Unknown

 

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. - William James

 

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. - Erma Bombeck

 

Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. - Author Unknown

 

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. - Author Unknown

 

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. - Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

 

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. - Sam Ewing

 

College is the longest vacation you will ever take. - Dan Indante and Karl Marks

 

Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

 

No vacation goes unpunished. - Karl Hakkarainen

 

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. - Author Unknown

 

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. - Mason Cooley

 

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

 

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. - Kin Hubbard

 

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. - Robert Benchley

 

Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity. - Author Unknown

 

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills. - S.J. Perelman

 

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 
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