Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ”

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned. ”

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. ”

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. ”

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. ”

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. ”

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ”

Life is an incurable disease. ”

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. ”

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. ”