(928 quotes found)
“The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
John Milton
“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
Voltaire
“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
Gail Sheehy
“The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?”
Woody Hayes
“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 retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
John Sharp Williams
“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Margaret Mead
“When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.”
Contributed by: Dafna Sharon
R.C. Sherriff
“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
“Smart tyrants retire rich”
