(928 quotes found)
“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”
George Foreman
“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 M. Baruch
“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
“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
Bette Davis
“I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portrait or its trajectory.”
John Singer Sargent
“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”
Robert Half
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial”
Seneca
“I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
