quotes for retirement

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081


It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. ~Sandy Lyle


Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ~Author Unknown


A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. ~Havelock Ellis


It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running around kissing each other to get the attention of boys and videocameras. ~M. Robin D'Antan, 2002


This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown


If you don't quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that. ~Scott Ginsberg, www.hellomynameisscott.com


The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain


Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964


Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets


Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical


Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown


I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt


I may be a twin but I'm one of a kind. ~Author Unknown


It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen... fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~Denis Norden (actually, it's a quote about cricket)


I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. ~Dame Edith Sitwell


Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score. ~Author Unknown