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

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Years, Places To Go

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Healing, Mind, Genius

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Skins, Body

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  Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• A wise man travels to discover himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary essays”

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• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  Zig Ziglar

  Results, Money Well Spent, More Time

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• It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivation, Years, Pyramids

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