(915 quotes found)
“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
Gail Sheehy
“Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.”
John Paul Stevens
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
John Sharp Williams
“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
“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”
Dwight L. Moody
“I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.”
Drew Carey
“Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.”
Pete Rose
“I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Smart tyrants retire rich”
Voltaire
“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
