Leacock Retirement Quotes & Sayings

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. — Stephen Leacock

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should. — Charlize Theron

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet. — Sting

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

MOST PEOPLE have no knowledge or understanding of the psychological changes of captivity. Social judgment of chronically traumatized people therefore tends to be extremely harsh. — Judith Lewis Herman

Told so repeatedly that we were worthless, we could not see the truth until we looked into each other's eyes. — Amalia Dillin

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them. — Jean-Claude Juncker

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement. — Stephen Leacock

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

A lot of actors on film sets ... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting ... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked. — Andy Serkis

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries. — Rick Remender

And who's to say that Horatia is not Lucien's perfect match?" Audrey asked.
"If she is I dread to think what that says about our sister," Cedric muttered.

-His Wicked Seduction — Lauren Smith