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He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
-Woody Allen
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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
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute on;
but I wish that I could get away
And go home to the village of Bruton.
-William Cowper, The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
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The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk
-Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003
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Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
-Amelia Earhart
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
-George Eliot
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A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
-Morris Fishbein
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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 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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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
-Ellen Goodman
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No vacation goes unpunished.
-Karl A. Hakkarainen
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
-Ernest Hemingway
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
-Elbert Hubbard
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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
-Elbert Hubbard
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
-Kin Hubbard
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It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.
-Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons (pt. IV), 1956
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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
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
-Samuel Johnson
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
-Samuel Johnson
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
-Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.
-Dorothy Parker, Faute de Mieux
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Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
-John Shirley
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And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back from the rush of things and breathe again. But a holiday is a respite, not a cure. The more we need holidays, the more certain it is that the disease has conquered us and not we it. More and more holidays just to get away from it all is a sure sign of a decaying civilization; it was one of the most obvious marks of the breakdown of the Roman empire. It is a symptom that we haven't learned how to live so as to re-create ourselves in our work instead of being sapped by it. A car should always be charging its battery as it runs. If it simply uses up without putting back, it has to go into dock to be recharged. It is not a sign that we are running particularly well if we are constantly needing to go into dock.
-Evelyn Underhill, The Mastery of Time
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A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
-Source Unknown
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The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Vacations
