Quotes of Retire - somelinesforyou

“ Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it. ”

- Red Adair

“ I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. ”

- Shirley Bassey

“ You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. ”

- Guido Calabresi

“ Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. ”

- Bill Copeland

“ The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club. ”

- Richard Gough

“ Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. ”

- Lindsey Graham

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

- Virginia Graham

“ Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ”

- Adriaan Kortlandt

“ Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road. ”

- Peggy Lee

“ Retire from the stage altogether, so crushing the blow of a dream child's collapse. ”

- Ron Moody

“ When I retire from tennis there are all kinds of things I want to do. I'd like to go to a business school or maybe take an artistic design course. ”

- Thomas Muster

“ We don't celebrate birthdays like we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Because you're told you're supposed to retire at a certain age. ”

- Prince

“ The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage. ”

- Paul Ryan

“ Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions. ”

- Serena Williams

“ That just seems like a tough thing to do… just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire. ”

- Luke Wilson

“ When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. ”

- Fidel Castro

“ 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

“ Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. ”

- Alexander Comfort

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ Nowhere does a man retire with more quiet or freedom than into his own soul. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ You can't put off being young until you retire. ”

- Philip Larkin

“ A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ”

- Barbara Mikulski

“ In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. ”

- Charles Francis Adams

“ 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. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

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

- Margaret Mead
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