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\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and ideas on vacation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJean Baudrillard<\/span><\/p>\n

A true warrior never goes on vacation, for conflict admits no truce.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m on vacation unless I\u2019m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.<\/span>
\nChelsea Cain<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCharles Horton Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacation mood: on.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

Say yes to adventure, especially in the summer.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.<\/span>
\nSam Keen<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.<\/span>
\nMorris Fishbein<\/span><\/p>\n

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms on vacation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Isn\u2019t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?<\/span>
\nZig Ziglar<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a vacation from two eternities.<\/span>
\nWilliam S. Burroughs<\/span><\/p>\n

If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCindy Crawford<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.<\/span>
\nGail Parent<\/span><\/p>\n

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.<\/span>
\nLeslie Dreyfous<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a reminder that I\u2019m going on vacation and you\u2019re not.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Jet lag is for amateurs.<\/span>
\nDick Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?<\/span>
\nPhilip Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

No man needs a vacation so much as a man who has just had one.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

A man doesn’t have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.<\/span>
\nEvan Esar<\/span><\/p>\n

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.<\/span>
\nLaura Marano<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes on vacation in Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.<\/span>
\nJaime Kurtz<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacations interfere with momentum.<\/span>
\nDaniel Kirschenbaum<\/span><\/p>\n

Laughter is an instant vacation.<\/span>
\nMilton Berle<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.<\/span>
\nLinda Bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.<\/span>
\nEvan Esar<\/span><\/p>\n

Few vacations are as gratifying as those devoted to personal growth.<\/span>
\nPat Koch Thaler<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCindy Sondik Aron<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. <\/span>
\nSam Ewing<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJ. J. Childers<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.<\/span>
\nRobert Orben<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is better in flip flops.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAl Gini<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I\u2019d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously contented, which is surely what it\u2019s all about.<\/span>
\nCash Peters<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacations are the coupons on the bonds of industry.<\/span>
\nHarry Van Demark<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJacob Morton Braude<\/span><\/p>\n

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.<\/span>
\nJack Adam Weber<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn De Graaf<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Vacation<\/a>
Vacation quotes at the seaside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m all about the palm trees and 80 degrees.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.<\/span>
\nAndrew A. Rooney<\/span><\/p>\n

I love my job only when I\u2019m on vacation. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nIsabelle Eberhardt<\/span><\/p>\n

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.<\/span>
\nMorris Fishbein<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry. Beach happy.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

A plane crashes into the Caribbean Sea, carrying 140 wealthy European vacationers. All dead. Fortunately, every now and then progress explodes.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Count The Days. Make The Days Count.<\/span>
\nMuhammad Ali<\/span><\/p>\n

Trips and vacations are so much more. These experiences show you what\u2019s possible and challenge you to examine the paths you\u2019ll take in the future.<\/span>
\nBlake Mycoskie<\/span><\/p>\n

Good vibes happen on the tides.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Time for some Vitamin Sea.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Moderation in exercise, eating and amusement is the best guarantee of a beneficial vacation.<\/span>
\nOllie Reeves<\/span><\/p>\n

My first day back at work has inspired me to book my next vacation.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

My goal is to hit the gym every day I\u2019m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.<\/span>
\nGary Allan<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.<\/span>
\nHarry Van Demark<\/span><\/p>\n

This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed, ill-nourished, and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.<\/span>
\nJoseph Salak<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nE. S. Woods<\/span><\/p>\n

The best things in life are the people we love, the places we\u2019ve been, and all the memories we\u2019ve made along the way.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPat Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRobert J. Fischer<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. <\/span>
\nRobert Brault<\/span><\/p>\n

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. <\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. <\/span>
\nMorris Fishbein<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. <\/span>
\nEarl Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and aphorisms on vacation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. <\/span>
\nRobert Orben<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nMargaret Laurence<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nRobertson Davies<\/span><\/p>\n

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, kids won\u2019t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them. <\/span>
\nKevin Heath<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

To get away from one\u2019s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one\u2019s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.<\/span>
\nCharles Horton Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n

Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. <\/span>
\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/span><\/p>\n

College is the longest vacation you will ever take.<\/span>
\nDan Indante and Karl Marks<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no vacation from being a parent.<\/span>
\nChevy Chase<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacation calories don\u2019t count.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

No vacation goes unpunished. <\/span>
\nKarl Hakkarainen<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. <\/span>
\nMason Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you\u2019ve been taking.<\/span>
\nEarl Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

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!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children. <\/span>
\nRobert Benchley<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.<\/span>
\nAnthony Bourdain<\/span><\/p>\n

Laughter is an instant vacation. <\/span>
\nMilton Berle<\/span><\/p>\n

If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation. <\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Traveling is like flirting with life. It\u2019s like saying, \u2018I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’<\/span>
\nLisa St. Aubin de Teran<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Summer<\/a>
Summer vacation quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Laughter is an instant vacation.<\/span>
\nMilton Berle<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nFr. Cedric Pisegna CP<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Morgan<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.<\/span>
\nNina Arianda<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of your best ideas come when you\u2019re on vacation.<\/span>
\nGautam Singhania<\/span><\/p>\n

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.<\/span>
\nIsland Company<\/span><\/p>\n

Take vacations, and go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can\u2019t always make memories.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. <\/span>
\nRobert Benchley<\/span><\/p>\n

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you\u2019ve allotted for vacation. <\/span>
\nJohn Battelle<\/span><\/p>\n

Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nS.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nDorothy Canfield Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n

I need a six month vacation, twice a year.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nMarty Cauley<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

A one day holiday can at times be better than a one week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!<\/span>
\nCatherine Pulsifer<\/span><\/p>\n

Excuse me while I taunt my Facebook friends with another picture of my beach vacation.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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