The Retirement Quotes Café

A Comprehensive Collection of Retirement Quotes, Retirement Jokes, Retirement Speeches, Retirement Letters, Retirement Gifts, and Retirement Poems
Selections by Ernie J. Zelinski
Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
 

 

Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings

Food Preparation and Dining Tips for the Retired
and Semi-Retired

 

 

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
— T. S. Elliot

Mustard's no good without roast beef.
— Chico Marx

If you are wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't.
— Unknown wise person

If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.
— Unknown wise person

There are nine ways of poaching eggs, and each of them is worse than the other.
— Robert Lynd

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— G. K. Chesterton

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
— Cyra McFadden

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
— W. Somerset Maugham

A knife too dull to cut anything else can always cut your finger.
— Fausner's Rule of the Household

[Retirement] life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
— Shirley Conran

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
— Andy Rooney

Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.
— Robert Orben

Any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
— Nora Ephron

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything.
— P. J. O'Rourke

 

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potatoe and someone to share it with.

— Oprah Winfrey

You are where you eat.

— Unknown wise person

Blow in its ear.

— Johnny Carson on the best way to thaw a frozen turkey

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again..

— George Miller

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Eternity is two people and a roast turkey.
— James Dent

Diets are mainly food for thought .
— N. Wylie Jones

Do you hunt your own truffles or do you hire a pig?
— Conversation icebreaker suggested by Jean McClatchy

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatic ward.

— John Mortimer

Why is it that when vegetarians come to you, you're expected to provide food for them, but  if you went to their house you'd never say, "I can't eat this muck. Woud you grill me a thick steak?".

— Simon Hoggart, Guardian columnist

Anybody who believes that the way to man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

— Robert Byrne

It if tastes good, it's trying to kill you.

— Roy Qualley

 

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