Retirement

(192 votes)   A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(176 votes)   We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(159 votes)   I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(134 votes)   Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(132 votes)   Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(128 votes)   A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

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(111 votes)   Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(103 votes)   When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

Virginia Graham

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(101 votes)   Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(93 votes)   Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(90 votes)   The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

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(86 votes)   I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(75 votes)   Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Lester Piggott

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(70 votes)   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.

Maggie Kuhn
1905-, American Civil Rights Activist, Author

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(70 votes)   When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

Kin Hubbard
1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist

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