Retirement Farewell Speech Quotes & Sayings

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle. — H.L. Mencken

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future. — Sogyal Rinpoche

All around me, the night lived its secret life. — Mary Downing Hahn

Crime is a product of social excess. — Vladimir Lenin

They got me glasses that were hip and cute, the kind adults like, but glasses are glasses. No kid has ever said: "Look at the hot new girl with the glasses. Maybe she'll have braces and a clubfoot too!" I think it made me cautious about other kids, because I was always one screwup from becoming "Four Eyes" on the playground. Those were the facts, like a card hand you couldn't fold. But beauty wasn't everything. I could still be the kind of girl who beat a table full of movie stars at poker. If I couldn't be datable, I could at least be respected. I was like the lady Godfather of plain-girl self-awareness. — Alison Umminger

May I guess this has something to do with the particularly hot undead guy you suck face with on a regular basis? — Amy Plum

In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more one gets the more one wants — Louisa May Alcott

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence. That's why now we love talking continuously! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated. — M. John Harrison

The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter. — Kim Harrison

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.' — Franco Nero

If wishes were fishes, this whole place would really stink. — Karina Halle