Famous Quotations

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.  ~James Michener


I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself.  ~Dennis Potter, 1978


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley


The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.K. Chesterton

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.  ~George Winters


I met a lot of people in Europe.  I even encountered myself.  ~James Baldwin


Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.  ~G.K. Chesterton


There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation.  It's called your checkbook.  ~Author Unknown


The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.  ~George Ade, Forty Modern Fables


A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. ~Lemony Snicket

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  ~Mark Twain


I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw


I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye

Retirement Quotes

I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. ~Merri Brownworth


Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ~Gene Perret



When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. ~R.C. Sherriff


When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. ~Ella Harris


Retired is being twice tired, I've thought
First tired of working,
Then tired of not.
~Richard Armour

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension! ~Author Unknown


I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career. ~Mike Hammar


Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ~George Burns


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt


Retirement: World's longest coffee break. ~Author Unknown


Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule


O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Oliver Goldsmith


Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money. ~Author Unknown


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown


Life begins at retirement. ~Author Unknown

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~Gene Perret


There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ~Robert Half

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ~George Foreman


Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. ~Gene Perret

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. ~John Lubbock, "Recreation," The Use of Life, 1894


When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. ~Author Unknown

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule


Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ~Jim Bishop


Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~Harry Vardon


The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ~Author Unknown


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


I'm now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



   

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement. ~Stephen Leacock


Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949


When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret


When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy


There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca


Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch


A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. ~Harry Mahtar


Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne


Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni


Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You


There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. ~Gene Perret


In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day. ~Terri Guillemets


Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements



Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes


There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home — forever." ~Gene Perret

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith


Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway


Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey


In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. ~Gene Perret


Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Terri Guillemets


The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin

Quotable Quotes

Real love is not based on romance, candle light dinner and walks along the beach. In fact, is based on respect, compromise, care and trust.

Love does not need a reason. Pure love will come from the heart without reason and it’ll stay every season.

Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.

Its so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.

Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.

Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.

It takes a strong heart to LOVE but it takes an even stronger heart to LOVE after its been BROKEN.

I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist.

Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.

Royalty Quotes

Time Quotes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway

I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll

But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

Time Quotes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway

I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll

But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

Time Quotes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway

I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll

But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes



For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir