"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

Heinlein, Robert | Happiness | 4 bookmarks

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. | Planning | 3 bookmarks

"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."

Sayers, Dorothy L. | Law and Lawyers | 1 bookmarks

"Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people."

Kuhn, Maggie | Retirement | 1 bookmarks

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."

Martineau, Harriet | Modesty | 1 bookmarks

"Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement."

Morgan, Arthur E. | Age and Aging | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Bradley, Omar Nelson | Generals | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Retirement | 2 bookmarks

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."

Richter, Jean Paul | Courage | 1 bookmarks

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

Beauvoir, Simone De | Retirement | 1 bookmarks