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

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

- Gene Perret

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

- Gene Perret

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

- Gene Perret

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

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

- Gene Perret

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

- Gene Perret

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

- Gene Perret

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

- Gene Perret