Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. Aldous Huxley
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. Philip Andrew Adams
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 1, 1:ii)
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. Henry Youngman
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. William James
The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. George Ade