A Quote by Mason Cooley

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Mason Cooley

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Insignificance One-Way Retirement Trip Way

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

Timothy Keller

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Mason Cooley

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

Klaus H. Carl

Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

Patrick Macnee

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Laura Marling

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.

Edwin Way Teale

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

Steven Callahan

For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.

Tim Henman

Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

Janeane Garofalo

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

Terence McKenna

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Scott Cook

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

David Gill

I'm great at retirement. I'm excelling at retirement... I've loved every second of it.

Carson Palmer

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.