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Quotes about retirement
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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. (Davis Bette)
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. (Davis Bette)
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. (Davis Bette)
To retire is to die. (Davis Bette)
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. (Davis Bette)
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. (Davis Bette)
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. (Davis Bette)
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. (Davis Bette)
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. (Davis Bette)
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. (Davis Bette)
Love prefers twilight to daylight. (Davis Bette)
When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference. (Davis Bette)
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. (Davis Bette)
Florida, is Gods waiting room. (Davis Bette)
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. (Davis Bette)
A short retirement urges a sweet return. (Davis Bette)
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. (Davis Bette)
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. (Davis Bette)
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Davis Bette)
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. (Davis Bette)
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. (Davis Bette)
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. (Davis Bette)
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. (Davis Bette)
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age. (Davis Bette)
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. (Davis Bette)
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