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...
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Martha Sherrill
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.
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H. L. Mencken
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
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Scott Elledge
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
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R. C. Sherriff
The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.
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George Foreman
More Quotes By William Cowper
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome...
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence...
The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me...
