“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
– Robin Williams
“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.”
- Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
"A bad day at sea is still better than a good day at work."
“I’m taking 4 kids ages 6 and under on a 9-hour road trip. We’ve already had 2 major tantrums. We haven’t even left yet. Avenge my death.”
— James Breakwell
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.'”
– Rita Rudner
“It’s my car now, but as soon as it’s fixed, it’ll be my daughter’s again.”
– Jeff Stahler
“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.”
– Steve Martin
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
— Truman Capote
"A change of latitude would help my attitude."
“Thanks TSA, I haven’t been touched like that since prom night.”
— Meaghan O’Connell
"Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid."
“Nascar would be so much more entertaining if they threw banana peels and turtle shells.”
"Everyone’s a little bit crazy and a little bit loud. But everyone’s sharing a generous amount of love."
“I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy.”
— Stephen Wright
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
— Dudley Moore
“Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.”
"There are only two emotions on a plane: boredom and terror."
- Orson Welles
"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
"I haven’t worn these trousers since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3-day vacation. Just in case."
“Life is like pocket money. You shouldn't spend it all in one place.”
― Julian Talbot
"Okay, we’re all like 90% happy and 10% sunburnt."
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”
– George Carlin
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
"I’m a travel fiend on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport."
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
– Miriam Toews
“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
"Parents don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while."
"I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories."
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
– John Green
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
"I wish I was a postcard. For under a dollar, I could travel to any location in the world."
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
– Jean Baudrillard
"If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal."
– Paulo Coelho
“Road Trips: Because they’re cheaper than therapy.”
"The main point of a cruise is to eat until you weigh the same as the boat."
"Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland."
"Help me! I'm on a family vacation!"
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
– Franklin P. Jones
"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
“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Francoise Sagan
“How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?”
— George Roberts
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
- Gil Stern
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
— Mac McCleary
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward