quotes for retirement

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James



Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown



If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb



So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"



We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888



What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown



There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost



A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ~Shelby Foote



We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland



Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown



There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ~Charles Caleb Colton



One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana



You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson



The saddest are these: "It might have been!"



I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein



What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage



Platitude: a banal or stale remark; a commonplace or trite remark or idea, especially one uttered as if it were original or momentous.



We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau



Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde