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).