Quotes of Retired - somelinesforyou

“ War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ”

- Amy Goodman

“ I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. ”

- Red Adair

“ The one thing I would guess about the Lord of Judgment is that He probably won't blame your parents. ”

- Robert Brault

“ He's good enough for me. I won't say he's a superhorse because you're never a superhorse until you're retired. Any horse can be beaten on any given day. ”

- Angel Cordero Jr.

“ Then it ended up at the Farne Salmon at Duns and I stayed there about eight years, 'til I retired. I should really have got a gold watch because they don't usually stay that long with Fane Salmon! ”

- David Walker

“ I have never retired-I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933. ”

- Sally Rand

“ Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the university, and writes books. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ”

- Omar N. Bradley

“ There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. ”

- Omar Nelson Bradley

“ The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ A lot of heat, but unfortunately little light, has been generated bythe debate over my being a retired soldier, as if it were a crime to have chosen a profession with the potential for supreme sacrifice for one's nation. ”

- Olusegun Obasanjo

“ The squabbles among linguists remind me of a saying of my mother-in-law, a retired farmer's wife.When the chickens start cannibalizing one another, the only thing to do is to butcher the lot or sell them to someone else and start over. ”

- John McCarthy

“ True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you… ”

- Robertson Davies
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