Gene Perret Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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