Retirement Quotes

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Lester Piggott

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

G. K. Chesterton

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

John Milton

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

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm happy about my decision and I haven't once said, 'I wonder if I made the wrong decision.' I know it's the right one.

Brett Favre

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it

Hal Borland

To retire is to die.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heatOf the long day, and wish 'twere done.Not till the hours of light returnAll we have built as we discern.

Matthew Arnold, Morality (st. 2)

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

George Bernard Shaw

Florida, is Gods waiting room.

Glenn Le Grice

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucker

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Margaret Mead

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

George Washington

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Oliver Goldsmith

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 von Goethe

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann von Goethe

Retirement: Statutory senility.

Emmett O'Donnell