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

—Elbert Hubbard

No vacation goes unpunished.

 —Karl Hakkarainen

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

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

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

—George Bernard Shaw

Two weeks on the sunny sands — and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

—Sam Ewing

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

 —Earl Wilson

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week when I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.

—Robertson Davies

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

—Morris Fishbein

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 week’s vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

—Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach. I’ll go over to them and say, “What are you doing here, you’ve never worked a day in your life.”

—Steven Wright

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

—Ursula K. LeGuin

I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

—Albert Einstein

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

—Augustine

To often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

—Elizabeth Drew

Long voyages, great lies.

—Italian proverb

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

—Eudora Welty