Gene Perret Retirement Quotes & Sayings

As soon as we fail to promptly obey the senses of smell and taste, they grow more lax in the fulfilment of their duty, and gradually allow harmful matter to pass unchallenged into the body. You are aware how one can become used to sitting in dense clouds of tobacco-smoke and inhaling it just as if it were healthy fresh air. The tongue has been still further corrupted, and we know that it can gradually be habituated to most unnatural food. Need I remind you of the different dishes and beverages which we now think indispensable, all of which were unknown some centuries ago? To these the present generation has grown so accustomed, that it would rather renounce a natural diet than give them up. — Anonymous

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

People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality, you see fighting on everything ... Everything's fighting. Doesn't matter what it is. You wake up in the morning, to get out of bed is a fight, believe it. So, fighting is actually the best thing a man can have in his soul. — Renzo Gracie

Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits their night. Such a man seems like others, quite normal. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it. Nobody knows that this man is a gulf. It is stagnant, but deep. From time to time a turmoil, of which we understand nothing, shows up on its surface. A mysterious wrinkle comes along, then vanishes, then reappears; an air bubble rises and bursts. It is a little thing, it is terrible. It is the breathing of the unknown monster. — Victor Hugo

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. — Barack Obama

Funny how a nice ass, firm pecs, and a great smile could thwart a woman's best plans. — Karina Halle

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

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

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

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

It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment. — Charles Lindbergh

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

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

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

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever. — Gene Perret

I' with 'my' is known as the embodied Soul [Jivatma]. 'I am' and 'All this is mine' is the state of an embodied Soul [Jivatma]. And 'I indeed am' and 'All this is not mine', is the state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!!! — Dada Bhagwan