Family values are a little like family vacations -— subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it’s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.
LESLIE DREYFOUS, New York Times, Oct. 25, 1992
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
PHILIP JOHNSON, Esquire magazine, Dec. 1980
No man needs a vacation so much as a man who has just had one.
ELBERT HUBBARD, Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1905
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
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
ELBERT HUBBARD, Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1905
Vacations interfere with momentum.
DANIEL KIRSCHENBAUM, The 9 Truths About Weight Loss
Laughter is an instant vacation.
MILTON BERLE, as quoted in The Educator's Book of Quotes
Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.
Linda Bloom, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married
A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
EVAN ESAR, 20,000 Quips and Quotes
Few vacations are as gratifying as those devoted to personal growth.
PAT KOCH THALER, New York Magazine, Apr. 24, 1978
More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do.
CINDY SONDIK ARON, Working at Play
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
SUSAN SONTAG, On Photography
Vacations have become somewhat of a status symbol and a measuring device of how well we're keeping up with the Joneses. This is another path that leads directly into the "Artificial Wealth Trap." While I am a strong advocate of taking time to travel and experience other locales, you must keep in mind that vacations are not long term investments. The strategy here is simple: Do not use your credit cards to finance your travles. You may be living it up in the lap of luxury and relaxation while on vacation but ask yourself how relaxed you will feel when the bills come in.
J. J. Childers, Real Wealth Without Risk
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine, 1903
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 the coupons on the bonds of industry.
HARRY VAN DEMARK, The Texas Magazine, Jul. 1911
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
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
MARK TWAIN, attributed, Unlimited Power
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
The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
ANDREW A. ROONEY, Years of Minutes
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