Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. ”

While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate. ”

My father's card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity - or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort. ”

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ”

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ”

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ”

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. ”

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. ”

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. ”

To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children? ”