retirement quotes for men

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown


In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849


We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? ~Author Unknown


Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678


Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ~Attributed to George Carlin


The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher


The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ~Francis Quarles, Emblems


The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~Samual McChord Crothers


Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. ~S.A. Sachs


I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold


I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~Lauren Bacall


We only part to meet again. ~John Gay


The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson


A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed


You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ~Arlo Guthrie