Keyword: Vacation

Vacation: Where you take the family to get away from it all, only to find it there, too.

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No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist
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Vacation: A change of routine that makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough to have to.

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When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you’re away and get nothing done, there’s another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

(1869 – 1946) American bridge builder & engineer
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I’ll take a vacation if I don’t go.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor
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Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist
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A family vacation is when you go away with the people you need to get away from.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
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Vacation: A period during which people find out where to stay away from next year.

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Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
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