Top 100 Quotes About Retiring
#1. I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
R.C. Sproul
#2. Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.
David Letterman
#3. Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.
Charles Dickens
#4. No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
Thierry Henry
#5. In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.
Lawrence Lessig
#6. It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
Marat Safin
#7. Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Charles Dickens
#8. Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
Goran Ivanisevic
#9. Filming wraps up next week, then I'm officially retiring my fangs."
"Girls' hearts will be shattered."
He tipped up my chin, and his steady gaze locked on mine.
"I'm only worried about one girl's heart." Oh. My
Jenny B. Jones
#10. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#11. My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
Kevin Spacey
#12. The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with.
Bill Bryson
#13. I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with them.
Pamela Anderson
#14. I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
Eve Bunting
#15. In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
Mason Cooley
#16. The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire
Mike Hawthorn
#17. Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over.
Michael Douglas
#18. I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
Paul McCartney
#19. Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.
Soyen Shaku
#20. If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep.
Rachel Ryan
#21. The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Elbert Hubbard
#22. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#23. I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
Tom Ford
#24. I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.
George Washington
#25. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
Dorothy Allison
#26. For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini
#27. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.
Bel Kaufman
#28. If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
Cassandra Peterson
#29. I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
Randy Moss
#30. He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.
Jane Austen
#31. When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker
#32. I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
Elaine Stritch
#33. I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
Michael Caine
#34. I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
Graeme Le Saux
#36. I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.
Dick Van Dyke
#38. Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
#39. I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
Franz Kafka
#40. I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.
Tom Osborne
#41. Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax
#42. I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.
Maria Sharapova
#43. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
Paulo Coelho
#44. retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general
Jack Shane
#45. Supernatural gift, but it was a matter as much of his limitations as of his strengths. He could see human society in ways that most businessmen could not, because he was not very much a part of it. And consciously or not, by retiring to his floating island, he preserved this precious limitation.
Michael Lewis
#46. Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0
Charles Dickens
#47. I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.
George Benson
#48. Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins
#49. To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
Walter Lippmann
#50. They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?
Brandon Sanderson
#51. People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
Sylvester Stallone
#52. Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
Horace Mann
#53. The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
Marianne Faithfull
#54. I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
Fidel Castro
#55. I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
Kenny Cunningham
#56. I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.
Robert Redford
#57. After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
Yuichiro Miura
#58. Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Jeffrey Kluger
#59. In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
Mark Twain
#60. I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle
#62. Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
#63. Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
Buddy Guy
#64. 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
Theodore Bikel
#65. I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.
Rebecca Lobo
#66. Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.
Anne McLellan
#67. Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease.
John Milton
#68. I love cricket and I have no intention to retire
Shahid Afridi
#69. I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden ... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.
Peter L. Bergen
#70. The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Frederik Pohl
#71. As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
Marla Gibbs
#72. We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#73. The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
Drew Bledsoe
#74. I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
Laurie Graham
#75. - I don't understand people who get power and then just give it up. Just say, 'Oh, what the fuck, I just don't want it anymore. I'm retiring.
Patrick Ness
#76. I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.
Don Howe
#77. Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
George Burns
#78. Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.
Scott Stossel
#80. That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.
Asahel Nettleton
#81. Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
Robert Breault
#82. I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life,
Haile Gebrselassie
#83. Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
Tim McIlrath
#84. There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do with them having a glorious IPO and then retiring to the Bahamas somewhere. It's important to keep that in mind.
DJ Shadow
#85. I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.
Alan Sillitoe
#86. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
Tony Bennett
#87. I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring
Ian Chappell
#88. I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
Anjelica Huston
#89. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.
Joe Tye
#90. Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Denis Waitley
#91. I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
Thomas Jefferson
#92. Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
Jim Crace
#93. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
Anita Roddick
#94. Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.
Pierre Loti
#95. I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles
Norman Mailer
#96. When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
Walter Wriston
#98. I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.
Ivan Lendl
#99. I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
Karen DeCrow
#100. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
Al Pacino
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