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# Weekend Words: Vacation
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-vacation/
- Published: 2013-09-08T13:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:45.000Z
- Description: Now that everyone is back at work, Weekend Words is going on vacation.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![Pál Szinyei Merse, “The Swing (Vacationers, In the Garden)” (1869). Oil on cardboard, 54 x 41 cm. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest. (Image via Web Gallery of Art) ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/09/vacation.jpg)

Pál Szinyei Merse, “The Swing (Vacationers, In the Garden)” (1869), oil on cardboard, 54 x 41 cm (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest) (image via Web Gallery of Art)

Now that everyone is back at work, Weekend Words will take a two-week vacation. See you on September 29th.

> “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”  
>  
> **—Ronald Reagan**

> “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”  
>  
> **—Earl Wilson**

> “For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.”  
>  
> **—Woody Allen**

> “It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.”  
>  
> **—Shirley Jackson, *Raising Demons***

> “Vacation: A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.”  
>  
> **—Unknown**

> “The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.”  
>  
> **—Jeff Bezos**

> “Why should not conscience have vacation  
> As well as other courts o’ th’ nation?”  
>  
> **—Samuel Butler, *Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317***

> “If you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.”  
>  
> **—Robert A. Heinlein**