“I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.”
Contributed by: Dafna Sharon
R.C. Sherriff
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.”
George Carlin
“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
“The only thing missing from the retirement party for Blair was a gold clock. It's quite clear that there's an orderly handover taking place. What we saw is the new leader.”
Paul Kenny
“The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear”
Samuel Johnson
“As Greenspan retires, I shall retire my paintings of him and am ready to move on.”
Erin Crowe
