Who said “Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.”?

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

“To retire is to die.”

“Florida, is Gods waiting room.”

“Retirement: Statutory senility.”

“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”

“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”

“One of the stupidest theories of Western life.”

“Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.”

“Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.”

“St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”