When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy
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  1. I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or... - Martha Sherrill

  2. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself. - H. L. Mencken

  3. It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Scott Elledge

  4. 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

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

More Quotes By Gail Sheehy
  1. Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

  2. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  3. The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  4. Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  5. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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