Holiday Hours

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. - English Proverb

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor. - Jon Tester

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. - Ovid

You are now traveling into the paradise of the scholars. - Caspar Wolff

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. - Seneca

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Laurence J. Peter

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. - Steven Wright

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy L. Goodman

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. - Ronald Reagan

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

I wanted to be an atheist, but I gave up. They have no holidays. - Henny Youngman

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

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this. - Babur

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. - Arthur Lacey

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. - Natalie Clifford Barney

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. - Elizabeth Drew

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. - Gary Shteyngart

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. - O.S. Marden

Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see. - Helen Hayes

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife. - Milton Berle

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! - Amanda Bradley

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain

To devote a portion of one's leisure to do something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation. - Gerald B. Fitzgerald

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Oh my. Space travel sounds rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me on one of those dreadful Star Ships. - C-3PO

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. - Andrea Bocelli

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor