(903 quotes found)
“The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime”
Shannon Fife
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
George F. Burns
“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
Gail Sheehy
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial”
Seneca
“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
“Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.”
Pete Rose
“The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
John Milton
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
John Sharp Williams
“For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return”
“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