"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery."
- Douglas Horton
"Backpacking is money spent on education."
“Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt, and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.”
– Jenn McKinlay
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
— Mac McCleary
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
— Truman Capote
“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.”
- Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?"
- George Carlin
“Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.”
"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
"Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas."
“Thanks TSA, I haven’t been touched like that since prom night.”
— Meaghan O’Connell
"Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second."
– Steven Tyler
“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.”
– Steve Martin
"I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere."
“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
"You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation."
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
– Emile Ganest
"Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito."
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
– Caskie Stinnett
"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."
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
– Enzo Ferrari
“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.”
"Help me! I'm on a family vacation!"
"There are only two emotions on a plane: boredom and terror."
- Orson Welles
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
“Life is like pocket money. You shouldn't spend it all in one place.”
― Julian Talbot
"There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children."
– Robert Benchley
“The inventor of cobblestones was clearly not communicating with the inventor of luggage wheels.”
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
– Mark Twain
"Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid."
"The devil himself had probably redesigned hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
- Anthony Price
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
- David Attenborough
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
– Miriam Toews
"The main point of a cruise is to eat until you weigh the same as the boat."
“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
"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
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board."
- Zora Neale Hurston
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."
- Maxwell Maltz
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
— Marcelene Cox
"If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal."
– Paulo Coelho
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
"Family Vacation (n.) A time for you to remember why your family never spends any time together."
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.'”
– Rita Rudner
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
"There is no WiFi in the forest but you will find a better connection."
"I bought my wife a ticket to go on a cruise. It's no Titanic, but I'm optimistic."
"There are good ships
and wood ships
and ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships
are friendships
and may they always be."
“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.”
- Theo Cowan