Emmett O'Donnell, Jr. quotes

“Retirement: statutory senility.”
-- Emmett O'Donnell, Jr.

#Retirement Quotes #Senility Quotes

“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”

“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

“Modesty and dew love the shade.”

“I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.”

“I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.”

“I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.”

“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”

“The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.”

“Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”