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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 please

» Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

» Anonymous (-)

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

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.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

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 and man of letters

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

» Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian physician Founder of Psychoanalysis

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

» Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

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

» Anonymous (-)

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 ob

» George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA

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.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

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.

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

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.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

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 Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

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