Retirement Quotes - Page 26

• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Holiday, Definitions

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  Pat Robertson

  Sinking Feeling, Giving, Feelings

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Philosophical, Farewell

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

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• So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

  Paul Ryan

  Cutting, Europe, People

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, People, Negative

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• I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

  Mitt Romney

  Senior, Running, Jobs

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

  Andy Roddick

  Golf, Results, Mets

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Teacher, Believe

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• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  Ian Anderson

  Dark, Getting Older, Musician

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  Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mean, Significant Change, Age

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

  Glenn Beck

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Teaching, Profound

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.

  Jennifer Estep

  People, Assassins, Emotion

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men

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• Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Women, Judging, Wish

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Passion, Golf, Play

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• I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspirational, Children, Mean

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• Never get out of bed before noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Work, Bed, Noon

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.260, Canongate Books

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• Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Peace, War

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Birthday, Senior, Order

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Moving, Support, Corporations

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teacher, Teaching, Reality

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