Wednesday's Words & Quippish Quotes: Vacation

I just came off of a 4-day weekend and summer vacation is ending for many students this week - so this installment of Wednesday's Words & Quippish Quotes is all about vacation! Enjoy (and then go back to work)! ;)

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.” 

― Charlaine Harris

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” 

― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.” 

― Seth Godin

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” 

― Elbert Hubbard

“Reading... a vacation for the mind....” 

― Dave Barry

“So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her.

I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.” 

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.” 

― Madeleine L'Engle, Meet the Austins