VACATION QUOTES
quotations about vacations
A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
If you have lost your clarity and purpose, a vacation is a great way to find it again.
DAVID FULLER
"Five reasons why you need to schedule your summer holiday now", Prince George Citizen, April 20, 2017
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
The Importance of Being Lazy
Vacations are fine, for a while. But they aren't real living. To be put into a facility where you have no purpose for being is completely unnatural and deadly to the spirit and body.
ANTHONY GIFFORD
letter to the editor, The Kingston Whig-Standard, April 20, 2017
A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
Our ceaseless scheming for the future has undermined for us all sense of reality in the present. We cannot rest with the present alone for our object. The fact is that every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in the year, whether he feel like taking it or not. First, for the reason we have considered hitherto--that that capacity for irresponsible enjoyment which is like air space in the character, may not become wholly atrophied within him--though many cannot and many will not treat this as a "practical" reason. But second, for the reason that all must consider practical, namely, tone of mind and health of body. No man, were he composed of catgut and whalebone, can work for five years unremittingly at the same kind of work with impunity.
WILLIAM JAMES
"Vacations", Essays, Comments, and Reviews
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
EARL WILSON
attributed, America's Vacation Deficit Disorder
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
AIMEE FRIEDMAN
Sea Change
I love being on vacation and never knowing what day it is.
ANONYMOUS
The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
ANDREW A. ROONEY
Years of Minutes
Few vacations are as gratifying as those devoted to personal growth.
PAT KOCH THALER
New York Magazine, April 24, 1978
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it.
ROBERT ORBEN
attributed, Reader's Digest, 1993
I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities--just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival.
ALEXANDER BABINETS
Gym Bag Books: Prevail Over Yourself Achieving a Balanced and Healthy Life
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
Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library
Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.
LINDA BLOOM
101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1905
Laughter is an instant vacation.
MILTON BERLE
attributed, The Educator's Book of Quotes
Vacations are a good thing. They give you a break from the routine and let your mind and body get refreshed while you supposedly spend some time doing some activities that you don't normally get to do. Vacations are also a bad thing. Why? Because they end.
JIM CLARK
"Dunedin has baseball and we don't?", South Marion Citizen, April 30, 2017
The answer may not be at the beach, but shouldn't we at least check?
ANONYMOUS
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
Take Back Your Time