“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine'.”
― Tommy Cooper
“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
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld
"Being on vacation with my family has brought me so much closer to my iPad."
"Only on a cruise shiip will you pay hundreds of dollar a day to sleep in a closet."
"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."
“Never have more children than you have car windows.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
"Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world."
- Rebecca West
"You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation."
"Like gum to a shoe, you’re stuck with me and I’m stuck with you."
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
"Parents don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while."
"If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise."
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
— Colin McRae
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."
- Maxwell Maltz
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
– Prince Philip
On Big Ben. “It’s just a big clock? I don’t understand all the hype with this clock. It is literally just a clock. It’s going to be a digital one in thirty years anyway. ”
— Montgomery Smith
"I need 6 months of vacation. Twice a year."
"I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories."
"Imagine being on a plane and NOT eating every item presented to you as if you will never again have ready access to food in your life."
- Jia Tolentino
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
– Jean Baudrillard
“Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”
– Emma Chase
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
“Life is like pocket money. You shouldn't spend it all in one place.”
― Julian Talbot
"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
- Robert Henri
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
– Enzo Ferrari
“Jet lag is for amateurs.”
— Dick Clark
“When going on a vacation, I wish I could load my wallet with money as much as I can overpack my luggage.”
"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
– George Burns
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
"It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!"
“Whenever I travel with my 4 young kids I always forget something. Like how stupid it is to travel with 4 young kids.”
– Jim Gaffigan
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
— Bob Talbert
"A change of latitude would help my attitude."
"You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license…"
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”
– Steven Wright
"People drink on cruises so that they think the swaying is normal."
"People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You’re not truly a parent until you’ve yelled at your kid for drinking fluid on a road trip because now they have to pee again.”
— Abe Yospe
"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?"
- George Carlin
"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
“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”