Retirement Quotes - Page 8

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

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Years, Giving, Age

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Mind, Body

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• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Memories, Careers

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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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• Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just for, you know, myself or the children, but the parents, the family finances, the money that you could be putting toward retirement you're using to buy tennis shoes and restring rackets and tennis lessons. So if you don't make it, then you may never retire. It's definitely a lot of risk.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Children, Dedication

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• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

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