Top 29 Gene Perret Quotes
#1. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
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#2. Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
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#3. Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache ... unless you play golf.
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#4. On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
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#5. My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
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#6. Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
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#7. Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
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#9. Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world
an assigned parking space.
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#10. Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
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#11. Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
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#12. In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.
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#13. I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.
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#14. I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
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#15. I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
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#16. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.
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#17. Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
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#18. My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
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#19. Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
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#20. Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
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#21. My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.
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#22. I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
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#23. Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
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#24. "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
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#25. I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
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#26. I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
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#27. What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
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#28. I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
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#29. An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
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