Famous lines and quotations about baby boomers, empty nest and retirement:

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement."

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."

Malcolm S. Forbes

"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."

Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954

"I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one."

Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974

"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."

Arnold Bennett

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you."

Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."

Doug Larson

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."

Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller

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