Quotes about retirement

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

— Simone De Beauvoir

To retire is to die.

— Pablo Casals

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

— Lord Chesterfield

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

— Javier Perez De Cuellar

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

— George Foreman

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

— Virginia Graham

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

— Ernest Hemingway

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

— Kin Hubbard

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

— Maggie Kuhn

Florida, is Gods waiting room.

— Glenn Le Grice

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

— Thurgood Marshall

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

— Margaret Mead

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

— John Milton

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Retirement: Statutory senility.

— Emmett O'Donnell

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

— Lester Piggott

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

— Alexander Pope

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

— William Shakespeare

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

— George Bernard Shaw

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

— Gail Sheehy

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.

— Anthony Trollope

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

— Source Unknown

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

— Source Unknown

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

— Voltaire

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

— George Washington

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

— George Burns

Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.

— William Shakespeare

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

— Samuel Johnson