"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
– Franklin P. Jones
"I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon."
“A car’s weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.”
"Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas."
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
– Dan Rather
“The inventor of cobblestones was clearly not communicating with the inventor of luggage wheels.”
"Being on vacation with my family has brought me so much closer to my iPad."
“I’ve had entire relationships that didn’t get as far as these airport security checkpoints.”
— Michael LeRoux
"People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
— Bob Talbert
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Francoise Sagan
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”
— Susan Heller
"By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always traveling & comes to family events tipsy."
"You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license…"
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
“How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?”
— George Roberts
“I’m getting used to wearing flip-flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show to a board meeting in sandals.”
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"I bought my wife a ticket to go on a cruise. It's no Titanic, but I'm optimistic."
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
"I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere."
“This is the first year I’m not going to Fiji because of COVID-19. Normally, I do not go because I am poor.”
— Brooke Miller
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
"Once the travel bug bites there is no known antitode, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life."
- Michael Palin
"Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second."
– Steven Tyler
“Never have more children than you have car windows.”
– Erma Bombeck
"Family Vacation (n.) A time for you to remember why your family never spends any time together."
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
– Dave Barry
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
"It's amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey."
– Babs Hoffman
“Nascar would be so much more entertaining if they threw banana peels and turtle shells.”
"Yeah, working is great… but have you tried traveling?"
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
– Robert Orben
"It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!"
"There is no WiFi in the forest but you will find a better connection."
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!”
– Russell Baker
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
— Mac McCleary
“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”
- Chuck Yeager
"You call it a pandemonium. We call it a family vacation."
“Driving is boring,” Rabbit pontificates, “but it’s what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.”
– John Updike
"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."
"Parents don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while."
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
— Albert Einstein
"If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal."
– Paulo Coelho
“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.”
– Paul Theroux
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
– John Green