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

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3.2 · 43 votes

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

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

4.4 · 64 votes · 170 reads

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

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PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

4.1 · 21 votes

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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.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.8 · 27 votes

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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?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

3.8 · 32 votes · 121 reads

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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.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.8 · 24 votes · 188 reads

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

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WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

3.8 · 32 votes

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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 ob

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George Washington

PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

4.1 · 22 votes · 158 reads

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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.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

5.0 · 45 votes · 140 reads

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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

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PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
4.1 · 63 votes · 152 reads
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.4 · 14 votes · 106 reads
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.1 · 21 votes · 2 reads
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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
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.6 · 52 votes · 57 reads
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Ernest Hemingway
WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century
4.5 · 43 votes · 121 reads
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Sigmund Freud
PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century
5.0 · 18 votes · 133 reads
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The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Anonymous
3.8 · 60 votes · 41 reads
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
3.0 · 9 votes · 102 reads
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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
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
3.3 · 39 votes · 191 reads
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