Abdul Qadeer Khan Quotes

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

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.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

People retire to do what I do every day.

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

I am such that person that, when I'm working, I'm like, 'Oh, what I wouldn't give for a weekend off!' And then, as soon as I have more that 18 hours without anything to do, I start shaking. It's really funny.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.