“The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
John Milton
“Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.”
William E Bill Vaughan
“You can't put off being young until you retire.”
Philip Larkin
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.”
William Hazlitt
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
Abe Lemons
“Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
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