Vacation

A vacation (or holiday) is a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism. People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festivals or celebrations.

Quotes

 * What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction.
 * Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need.


 * Leave for a while thy costly country seat; And, to be great indeed, forget The nauseous pleasures of the great: Make haste and come: Come, and forsake thy cloying store; Thy turret that surveys, from high, The smoke, and wealth, and noise of Rome; And all the busy pageantry That wise men scorn, and fools adore: Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor.
 * John Dryden, Imitation of Horace, 29th Ode


 * Sometimes 'tis grateful to the rich to try A short vicissitude, and fit of poverty: A savoury dish, a homely treat, Where all is plain, where all is neat, Without the stately spacious room, The Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom, Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the great.
 * John Dryden, Imitation of Horace, 29th Ode


 * Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
 * Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz) (1939)


 * The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.
 * Gertrude Stein, Paris, France, 1940 (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 107).


 * Vacation All I ever wanted Vacation Had to get away Vacation Meant to be spent alone.
 * The Go-Go's, Vacation, from Vacation (1982).