Gene Perret Quotes

#1. Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

Gene Perret

#3. My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

Gene Perret

#4. To be honest, Nick, I'd be surprised to hear these three speaking of having their heart stolen ... with an attitude like this ... I'm guessing this lot is much more interested in who will be the first man to have his heart stolen
they don't seem the wallflower type.

Sarah MacLean

#5. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

Gene Perret

#7. Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

Gene Perret

#8. My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.

Gene Perret

#9. I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Gene Perret

#10. Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

Gene Perret

#11. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Gene Perret

#12. "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Gene Perret

#13. I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

Gene Perret

#14. There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

William Hazlitt

#15. I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

Gene Perret

#16. No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.

Aidan Chambers

#17. What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

Gene Perret

#18. I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Gene Perret

#19. An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

Gene Perret

#20. Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

Gene Perret

#21. Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

Gene Perret

#22. Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache ... unless you play golf.

Gene Perret

#23. On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

Gene Perret

#24. Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

Dolly Parton

#25. My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

Gene Perret

#26. Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

Gene Perret

#27. Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Gene Perret

#28. To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#29. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

Gene Perret

#30. Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world
an assigned parking space.

Gene Perret

#31. Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

Gene Perret

#32. Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

Gene Perret

#33. 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.

Gene Perret

#34. Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

Miller Huggins

#35. I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

Gene Perret

#36. 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.

Gene Perret

#37. I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

Gene Perret