Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ”

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. ”

There's only three movies I've been involved with in my whole life that I really care about. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was one, and 'Princess Bride' was the second, and 'Hearts in Atlantis' is the third. ”

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. ”

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller. ”

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ”

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ”

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ”

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers. ”

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character. ”