Vacation Time Quotes

• 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

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

  Robert Orben

  Work, Cute Life, Vacation

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

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

  Evan Esar

  Vacation, Like Love, Nostalgia

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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, Great Holiday

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• No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Holiday, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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

  Morris Fishbein

  Funny, Vacation, Inspirational Vacation

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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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

  Vacation, Clothes, Relaxation

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• If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Work, Vacation

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• A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic

  Max von Sydow

  Vacation, Magic, Special

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• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  Zig Ziglar

  Vacation, Done, Stuff

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• A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

  Jacob Braude

  Vacation, Long, Boss

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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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• On vacations: 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

  Beach, Vacation, Skins

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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, Vacation, Carpe Diem

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

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Babies don't need a vacation. But I still see them at the beach. It pisses me off.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Baby, Beach

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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 a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Get Well, Vacation, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

  Jodi Rell

  Retirement, Vacation, Years

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