Retirement Quotes - Page 7

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  Jackie Mason

  Health, Age, Sickness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Golf

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• The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Military, Ties

  "Other People's Trades" by Primo Levi, ("Ex-Chemist"), 1985.

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• I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, America, Black

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• We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Funny, Stars, Positive Thinking

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Thinking, Ideas

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Mind, Body

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• Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Teacher, Teaching, Home

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

  Clay Aiken

  Teacher, Teaching, Counting

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• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Sorry, Hate

  On Jeremiah Markland, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 161, n. 3 (10 October 1782)

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• Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

  Elaine Chao

  Lost, Assets, States

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• Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

  Sid Gillman

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

  Bob Arum

  Funny, Long, Boxing

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Farewell, Lasts

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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• Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

  Drake

  Looks, Bragging, Bank Accounts

  Song: The Language

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  All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

  Joan of Arc

  Inspirational, Mind, Battle

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• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  William Cowper

  Kings, Home, Winter

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Age, Twenties, Sound

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• Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

  Linda Goodman

  Poison, Playgrounds

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  Ian Botham

  Tunnels, Light, Achieve

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• It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it.
  Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

  Richard Ford

  Dream, Farewell, Thinking

  1992 'An Urge for Going', in Harper's, Feb.

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Attitude, Grandma, Grandpa

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