(928 quotes found)
“I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.”
Russell B. Long
“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
“Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”
Richard M. Nixon
“They're not retiring. They're moving on.”
David Tufts
“It is not appropriate at all for the money to be spent on someone’s retirement. It is over the top,”
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
“To retire is to begin to die”
Pablo Casals
“[Retirement could be tough for the self-admitted workaholic, who received a lifetime achievement award at the British Black Music Awards last year for her 40-year music career.] I never drink, and I have never done drugs, ... All I have ever done is work, work, work my entire life.”
Tina Turner
“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
“As Greenspan retires, I shall retire my paintings of him and am ready to move on.”
Erin Crowe
