Retirement Quotes - Page 8

• Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Politics, Pathetic

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Sunset, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

  Will Harvey

  Practice, Retiring

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• I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wine, Red, Way

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• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Teaching, Ambition

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• Look, we're trying to explore other options to your retirement," the whitecoat said. "You might be useful to us in other ways." Because we're not that useful dead,"Nudge said thoughtfully. No," I agreed. "Well, maybe as doorstops." The whitecat made an "eew" expression. Or those things in a parking lot that show where the cars should stop," suggested Iggy. He closed his eyes and went stiff, to demonstrate what it would look like. Also an option.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Expression, Nudge Nudge

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• It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

  Richelle Mead

  Jesus, Wall, Sorry

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• We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.

  Wendell Berry

  Ambition, Weekend, Vacation

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.36, Counterpoint Press

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• She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

  A. A. Milne

  Bird, Tree, Looks

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Once on a Time”, p.206, The Floating Press

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• There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

  Bono

  Art, Mastery, Way

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• The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Patriotic, Thinking

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

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Mediocrity, Mediocre, Happy Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Genius, Incompetence

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• Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

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• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

  Julie Walters

  Home, Opportunity, Giving

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• but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Flower, Loss

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

  Ken Venturi

  Hero, Giving, Reruns

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• That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, Government

  "The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker". Leader to Leader, No. 1, 1996.

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• Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

  Betty White

  Dirty, Asking, Want

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• I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

  George Mason

  Children, Comfort, Determined

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, October 2, 1778.

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