Retirement Quotes - Page 18

• The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

  Steven Rattner

  Income, Needs, Taxation

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• I don't believe in retirement.

  Stuart Rose

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

  Stuart Rose

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Glad that I live am I;
  That the sky is blue;
  Glad for the country lanes,
  And the fall of dew.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Country, Fall, Blue

  Lizette Woodworth Reese, “A Little Song Of Life”

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• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Long Ago, Age, Mountain

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Wall, Glasses, Black

  Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Home, Vacation, Hunting

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• The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Theatre, Firsts, Events

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222

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• The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Heart, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1918). “Twenty-two Essays of William Hazlitt”

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• We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Teacher, Math, Needs

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• There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

  Julie Walters

  Baby, Way Forward, Ideas

  "Julie Walters criticises lack of roles for older female actors" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2012.

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• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  Marat Safin

  Answers, Retiring, Thousand

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• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  Tanya Tucker

  Funny Retirement, Retiring

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• No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

  Thierry Henry

  Stopping, Retiring, Wanted

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• There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

  Allan Bloom

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Clever

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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, School

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Hype, Deceit

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Teaching, Individual

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 10, 1799.

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• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Teacher, Judging

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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• We must dress according to the dictates of fashion, make love whether we feel like it or not, kill in the name of our country, wish time away so that retirement comes more quickly, elect politicians, complain about the cost of living, change our hairstyle, criticize anyone who's different, go to a religious service and beg forgiveness for our sins and puff ourselves up with pride because we know the truth and despise the other tribe who worships a false god.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Country, Religious

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• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

  Douglas Preston

  Moving, Character, Boston

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• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  Edward Heath

  Vat, Firsts, Ruined

  "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

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• And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.

  Walter Mischel

  More Money, Marshmallow

  "The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline" by Jonah Lehrer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2009.

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