Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. ”

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ”

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ”

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. ”

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ”

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ”

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ”

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ”