Quotes by Retirement Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing A. A. Milne retirementbeing-happyhappiness 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 treebirdretirement The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. Abe Lemons days-offtroubleretirement Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams womenretirementinspirational Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams fruitlessonsretirement 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 retirementlifethinking how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day. Agatha Christie monotonyimagineretirement You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. Al Pacino insecurityretirementthinking As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring. Alan Jackson albumsretirementlong Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago. Alan M. Taylor childhoodcoupleretirement Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus mediocritymediocreretirement After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Albert Camus teacherretirementbook He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus next-moveretirementmoving Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. Alex Comfort weekretirementtwo When one door closes, another one opens. Alexander Graham Bell tattoodoorsretirement There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. Allan Bloom realteacherretirement Modesty and dew love the shade. Alphonse de Lamartine dewshaderetirement The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. Alphonsus Liguori prayerretirementmean Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Ambrose Bierce womenjudgingretirement HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Ambrose Bierce springretirementbelieve1234567891011»
