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"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. on law and lawyers    Share

"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 on retirement    Share

"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 on modesty    Share

"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. on age and aging    Share

"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 on generals
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"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 on retirement    Share

"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 on courage    Share

"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 on retirement    Share

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

Osler, Sir William on age and aging
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"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. on planning
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"Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."

Pepper, Claude D. on age and aging    Share

"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."

Levi, Primo on professions and professionals    Share

"First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying"

Unknown, Source on life
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"It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness."

Unknown, Source on greatness    Share

"Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor."

Taylor, Jeremy on adultery
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"Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire."

Auden, W. H. on cancer    Share

"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."

Adams, Charles Francis on action    Share

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

Mencken, H. L. on politics    Share

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

Drucker, Peter F. on management    Share

"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."

Benn, Tony on politics    Share

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"Retirement: Statutory senility."

O'Donnell, Emmett on retirement    Share

"A short retirement urges a sweet return."

Milton, John on retirement
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"When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference."

Hubbard, Kin on retirement    Share

"Retirement is the ugliest word in the language."

Hemingway, Ernest on retirement    Share

"To retire is to die."

Casals, Pablo on retirement    Share

"God's retirement plan is out of this world"

Unknown, Source on death
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."

Johnson, Samuel on retirement    Share

"The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does."

Unknown, Source on retirement    Share

"When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference."

Graham, Virginia on retirement    Share

"Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."

Bierce, Ambrose on nuns    Share

"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on anecdotes    Share

"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."

Sheehy, Gail on retirement    Share

"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."

Foreman, George on retirement
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"A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon."

Moore, Thomas on wives    Share

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