Vacations - Quotes

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

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. - Robert Orben 

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

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. - Maya Angelou

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. - Margaret Laurence

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 in which 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

It is not the place you choose for a vacation that determines your enjoyment but the company you tag along with. - Unknown

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

Only a fool blames his bad vacation on the rain. - Paul Theroux

The best thing about a vacation is planning it. - Andrew A. Rooney

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

The trouble with vacations is you have to earn them before you go and make up for them when you come back. It is really more restful just to keep on working. - Henry Allen Moe

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded. - Alison Kurie

Vacations are a proper reward to anyone who has worked hard throughout the year. - Stephen L. J. Smith

Vacations are a time to stop our daily routines, take a break, rest, invite adventure, engage in easy conversations, and have fun. They provide an excellent space in which to connect with our higher awareness, our being, and those in our lives. - Suzanne Kyra & Nathan Derksen

Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off. - Robert J. Fischer

Vacations are good for taking us away for a while from the things we deal with in the work world, and helping us get a fresh look at things when we return. Some companies insist their employees take a vacation for this reason. - Rex Lee Reynolds

Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labour.... 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

Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work. - Harry van Demark

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 travels. 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

Vacations interfere with momentum. - Daniel Kirschenbaum

Vacations should always be just long enough for your boss to miss you, but not so long he finds out he can really do quite well without you. - Unknown