For all you vacationers out there, isn’t it nice to know that so many travelers share the same love for new experiences, relaxation, and freedom? Seeing the variety of attitudes across these 100 vacation quotes reminds us just how important it is to take time off every now and then.

Now get up, get your backpack or beach bag ready, and hit the road – because vacations are only as good as you make them!

  1. I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. –Anthony Bourdain
  2. Laughter is an instant vacation. -Milton Berle
  3. A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic. –Max von Sydow
  4. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. –Robert Orben
  5. One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip. – Paul Brodie
  6. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. – Elbert Hubbard
  7. A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. – Morris Fishbein
  8. There’s no vacation from being a parent. –Chevy Chase
  9. Not all those who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
  10. Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. –Leo Tolstoy
  11. Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. –William James
  12. To travel is to live. –Hans Christian Anderson
  13. The vacation we often need is freedom from our own minds. -Jack Adam Weber
  14. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
  15. If your work requires travel, you will understand that there is no vacation destination like home – Park-Chan Wook
  16. In America, there are two classes of travel: first class and with children.  – Robert Benchley
  17. Home is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms.- William J. Bennett
  18. An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate. -Jaime Kurtz
  19. If you go anywhere, even in paradise, you will miss your home. – Malala Yousafzai
  20. My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean. –Nina Arianda
  21. Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. –Vernon Baker
  22. In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them. –Kevin Heath
  23. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion –Leigh Hunt
  24. A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. –Earl Wilson
  25. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart
  26. The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way. –Unknown
  27. When all else fails, take a vacation. –Betty Williams
  28. There can’t possibly be anything more beautiful than a seaside beach at sunset. – Bryn McCarren
  29. One-week vacations are too short to prevent burnout; by the time you relax enough not to think about the office the week is almost up. –Cecilia Mikalac
  30. The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together. –Anthony T. Hincks
  31. My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm, and not a lot of people around. – Derek Jeter
  32. Make your vacation your vacation.  That is the secret to success. –Mark Twain
  33. A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do. –Richie Norton
  34. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. –Michael Zadoorian
  35. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. –Ernest Hemingway
  36. On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me. –Will Wright
  37. Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr
  38. Laughter is an instant vacation. –Milton Berle
  39. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. -Michael Zadoorian
  40. Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!! -Lea Mishell
  41. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. –Susan Sontag
  42. No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell. –Jewish Proverb
  43. The vacation we often need is freedom from our own minds. –Jack Adam Weber
  44. A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives. – E. S. Woods
  45. It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time. -David Brenner
  46. Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options. –Anne Wilson Schaef
  47. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. -James Michener
  48. Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. –Laura Marano
  49. If all the year were playing holidays, the sport would be as tedious as work; but when they seldom come, they wished to come. -Shakespeare
  50. Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing. -Frank Tyger
  51. I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival. -Alexander Babinets
  52. I can’t think of anything that excites a great sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. -Bill Bryson
  53. Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. –H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  54. Holiday: A period of activity so intense that it can only be undertaken three or four weeks in the year. -Miles Kington
  55. A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. -Earl Wilson
  56. No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen. –Chelsea Cain
  57. A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. -Morris Fishbein
  58. Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy! –Mehmet Murat Ildan
  59. I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. -Benjamin Disraeli
  60. The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying. -Arnold Glasow
  61. Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing. -Frank Tyger
  62. Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? –Zig Ziglar
  63.  Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are. -Debasish Mridha
  64. A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices. –Hal Chadwicke
  65. People don’t take trips; trips take people. -John Steinbeck
  66. It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time. -David Brenner
  67. Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not. –Unknown
  68. Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before. -Dalai Lama
  69. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the way in which you yourself have altered. –Nelson Mandela
  70. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. -Michael Zadoorian
  71. The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule. -Kelly Clarkson
  72. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. -Michael Zadoorian
  73. Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. -William James
  74. Vacation calories don’t count. –Unknown
  75. I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I’m at work. –Zac Posen
  76. Laughter is an instant vacation. -Milton Berle
  77. A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic. -Max von Sydow
  78. My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer. – Gary Allan
  79. A wise man travels to discover himself. -James Russell Lowell
  80. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, and no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the care which will not withdraw from us. -Maya Angelou
  81. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. -Rachel Wolchin
  82. Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr
  83. Jet lag is for amateurs. –Dick Clark
  84. Travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. -Elizabeth Gilbert
  85. When all else fails, take a vacation. -Betty Williams
  86. No, I didn’t get a thing done, but I sure soaked up every minute of the memory we were making, and I count it all as time well wasted. –Brad Paisley
  87. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. -Robert Orben
  88. On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me. -Will Wright
  89. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. -Elbert Hubbard
  90. After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. -Kenneth Grahame
  91. Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. -Laura Marano
  92. As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation. –John Battelle
  93. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. -André Gide
  94. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. -Susan Sontag
  95. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. –St. Augustine
  96. Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. -Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
  97. Find what brings you joy and go there. -Jan Phillips
  98. A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. –Evan Esar
  99. What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life. -Joseph Brodsky
  100. The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. -Sydney J. Harris

For all you adventurers and wanderlust seekers out there, isn’t it nice to know that so many travelers share the same love for new experiences, relaxation, and freedom? Seeing the variety of attitudes across these 100 quotes reminds us just how important it is to take time off every now and then.

Now get up, get your backpack or beach bag ready, and hit the road – because vacations are only as good as you make them!