Retire Quotes

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. (Horace)
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. View quote
Louis Armstrong
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. View quote
Margaret Mead
People do not retire. They are retired by others. View quote
Duke Ellington
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. View quote
Bette Davis
That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder. (Scott Speedman)
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. View quote
Tom T. Hall
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. View quote
Harry Houdini
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire? View quote
Steve Jobs
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something. (Theodore Zeldin)
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
You can't put off being young until you retire. View quote
Philip Larkin
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies. View quote
Daniel Boone
To me personally, the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher. View quote
Lin Yutang