Quotes and ideas on vacation, aphorisms, quotations, and thoughts by great auhtors and writers about the time and place of vacation, or holiday if you prefer.
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony – this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
Jean Baudrillard
A true warrior never goes on vacation, for conflict admits no truce.
Carl William Brown
No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
Chelsea Cain
To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley
Vacation mood: on.
Anonymous
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Say yes to adventure, especially in the summer.
Anonymous
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen
A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
Morris Fishbein
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
What distinguishes a true samurai from other characters is that the original fighter always walks with death at his side and always trains, with his mind above all, instead of going on vacation, even when it’s a holiday.
Carl William Brown
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
Zig Ziglar
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
William S. Burroughs
If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.
Kin Hubbard
When it comes to the summer months most people start to think about where they will be going on vacation. This is the time of year when most individuals take time off of work because the kids are out of school. It is the perfect time for everyone to spend time together and to regroup from the stress that is often experienced with everyday life.
Cindy Crawford
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
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
Gail Parent
A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Anonymous
If you steal a little you will end up in jail and be classified as a criminal; if you steal a lot you can always go on holiday to warm countries and live off the proceeds for the rest of your days; if you are a true artist in the sector, the state will also guarantee you a rich pension.
Carl William Brown
The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
Anonymous
Family values are a little like family vacations – subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it’s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.
Leslie Dreyfous
Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not.
Anonymous
Jet lag is for amateurs.
Dick Clark
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson
No man needs a vacation so much as a man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
A man doesn’t have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
Evan Esar
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
Laura Marano
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
Elbert Hubbard
An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.
Jaime Kurtz
Vacations interfere with momentum.
Daniel Kirschenbaum
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.
Linda Bloom
A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
Evan Esar
Few vacations are as gratifying as those devoted to personal growth.
Pat Koch Thaler
More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do.
Cindy Sondik Aron
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
Susan Sontag
Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.
Sam Ewing
Vacations have become somewhat of a status symbol and a measuring device of how well we’re keeping up with the Joneses. This is another path that leads directly into the “Artificial Wealth Trap.” While I am a strong advocate of taking time to travel and experience other locales, you must keep in mind that vacations are not long term investments. The strategy here is simple: Do not use your credit cards to finance your travles. You may be living it up in the lap of luxury and relaxation while on vacation but ask yourself how relaxed you will feel when the bills come in.
J. J. Childers
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben
Life is better in flip flops.
Anonymous
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labor…. Vacations allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, to rediscover ourselves.
Al Gini
Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I’d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously contented, which is surely what it’s all about.
Cash Peters
Vacations are the coupons on the bonds of industry.
Harry Van Demark
A vacation should be just long enough for the boss to miss you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
Jacob Morton Braude
The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.
Jack Adam Weber
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain
Vacations are your best chance in the year to get in some real living, to get out of the job-as-life box, off automatic pilot, and rediscover your passions, enthusiasms, friends, family, and the vitality of partaking in the world outside career brainlock. Social scientists have found that leisure experiences increase positive mood, act as a buffer against life’s setbacks, and open the door to the best times of our lives.
John De Graaf
I’m all about the palm trees and 80 degrees.
Anonymous
The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
Andrew A. Rooney
I love my job only when I’m on vacation.
Anonymous
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Isabelle Eberhardt
A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
Morris Fishbein
Don’t worry. Beach happy.
Anonymous
A plane crashes into the Caribbean Sea, carrying 140 wealthy European vacationers. All dead. Fortunately, every now and then progress explodes.
Carl William Brown
Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count.
Muhammad Ali
Trips and vacations are so much more. These experiences show you what’s possible and challenge you to examine the paths you’ll take in the future.
Blake Mycoskie
Good vibes happen on the tides.
Anonymous
Time for some Vitamin Sea.
Anonymous
Moderation in exercise, eating and amusement is the best guarantee of a beneficial vacation.
Ollie Reeves
My first day back at work has inspired me to book my next vacation.
Anonymous
My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
Gary Allan
Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.
Harry Van Demark
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed, ill-nourished, and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
Joseph Salak
A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.
E. S. Woods
The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way.
Anonymous
This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing–the door is locked and no one can find the key.
Pat Williams
Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
Robert J. Fischer
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.
Robert Brault
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.
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
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
In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.
Kevin Heath
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
To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley
Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
Anonymous
The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
Anonymous
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
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
There’s no vacation from being a parent.
Chevy Chase
Vacation calories don’t count.
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
Mason Cooley
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
Earl Wilson
Seeing some of my acquaintances in the mountains during the Christmas holidays, I remember the good old days of university, when I had to work on holidays, always, while many of my classmates went to have fun, in the summer to the sea, and in the winter to the snow!
Carl William Brown
In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children.
Robert Benchley
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
Anthony Bourdain
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
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 Teran
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
When I was on a two-week vacation I noticed something. The vacation lasted a good long time then suddenly it was over. Life is like that also.
Fr. Cedric Pisegna CP
Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way.
John Morgan
My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.
Nina Arianda
Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation.
Gautam Singhania
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
If we lock a murderer in prison, the action costs us about 70 thousand dollars a year; if instead we give him a prize vacation we get by with much less. Everything is relative, everything is conventional, everything is arbitrary. Linguistics teaches us this magnificently.
Carl William Brown
Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.
Island Company
Take vacations, and go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories.
Anonymous
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
Robert Benchley
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.
John Battelle
Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity.
Anonymous
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, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman
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
I need a six month vacation, twice a year.
Anonymous
Do not wait until you are dying to go on vacation. I think if I had to give you one piece of advice that would be it. We put things off. We do not mean to, but we do. We carry around the assumption that there is plenty of time to do whatever needs to be done.
Marty Cauley
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Leo Tolstoy
There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.
Anonymous
A one day holiday can at times be better than a one week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!
Catherine Pulsifer
Excuse me while I taunt my Facebook friends with another picture of my beach vacation.
Anonymous
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