Quotes of Resignation - somelinesforyou

“ I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films. ”

- Paul Hogan

“ That's not really retirement. It's called double-dipping. ”

- John Morley

“ I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. ”

- Unknown

“ Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Make sense who may. I switch off. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. ”

- Hugh Hefner

“ Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Florida is Gods' waiting room. ”

- Glenn Le Grice

“ I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! ”

- Unknown

“ Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired. ”

- Pete Rose

“ That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ Resignation is the timid sign of courage. ”

- William Somerset Maugham

“ It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ”

- Unknown

“ It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ”

- Scott Elledge

“ I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ Retirement? You're talking about death, right? ”

- Robert Altman

“ The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are! ”

- Unknown

“ Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. ”

- Robert Brault

“ A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ”

- Seneca
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