Vacation Quotes

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Find what brings you joy and go there.

  Jan Phillips

  Joy, Going On Vacation

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.12, Quest Books

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• It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

  David Brenner

  Travel, Memorable, Vacation Time

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

  Evan Esar

  Like Love, Nostalgia, Pleasure

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

  Earl Wilson

  Holiday, Vacation Time, Great Holiday

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

  Morris Fishbein

  Funny, Vacation Time, Inspirational Vacation

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• Once a year go someplace you've never been.

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Years, Places To Go

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• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Robert Orben

  Work, Cute Life, Vacation Time

  "Local Legal Eagle Stages Sendup". The Denver Post, April 27, 2008.

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• I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Long, My Own

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.201, A&C Black

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• The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

  Andy Rooney

  Planning, Best Things

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes”, p.345, PublicAffairs

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• 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

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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

  Jerry Smith

  Clothes, Relaxation, Half

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

  Christian Dior

  Casual, Clothings, Colorful

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• In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Healing, Mind, Genius

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• Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Holiday

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• 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

  Work, Holiday, Men

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, People

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• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

  Clarence Day

  Wise, Knowing, Ants

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Years, Essentials, Restless

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Success, Travel

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