(914 quotes found)
“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
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return”
John Milton
“To retire is to die.”
Pablo Casals
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
John Sharp Williams
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
George F. Burns
“I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.”
George Foreman
“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
“Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.”
Norman Vincent Peale
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