(914 quotes found)
“Smart tyrants retire rich”
Voltaire
“Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“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
“The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
John Milton
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial”
Seneca
“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
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong
“The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime”
Shannon Fife
“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
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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