“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The one thing I would guess about the Lord of Judgment is that He probably won't blame your parents. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 2K
“ 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.- Copy
- 130
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have never retired-I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933. ”
- Sally Rand- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 3K
“ I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the university, and writes books. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 445
“ 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- Copy
- 880
“ There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 457
“ 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- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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- Copy
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