Retires Quotes

#1. We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

Ron Johnson

#2. Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again

Andy Gray

#3. At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

Nas

#4. When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#5. Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Cliff Martinez

#6. The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

Laurence Binyon

#7. A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.

Victor Hugo

#8. You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Julio Iglesias

#9. When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

R. C. Sherriff

#10. If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

Colin Mochrie

#11. I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

Dave Barry

#12. We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

Doug Sundheim

#13. For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

Bhartrhari

#14. Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

Colin Mochrie

#15. Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

Francis Quarles

#16. The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

Karl Popper

#17. For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

Khalil Gibran

#18. Now the New Year reviving old Desires.
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

Omar Khayyam

#19. I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

Patience Jonathan

#20. A writer never retires; a writer never resigns.

Archana Kapoor Nagpal

#21. If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.

Nikki Sixx

#22. As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility and His wisdom!

Peggy Toney Horton

#23. When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

Eddie Arcaro

#24. The worst mark you can recieve is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which every man retires, and gives over all hopes. (referring to Chief Minister of State)

Jonathan Swift

#25. The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Omar Khayyam

#26. ...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

Socrates

#27. Good satire goes beyond the specific point it's trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you're not left believing everything they're telling you.

Aaron McGruder

#28. Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.

Sergio Aguero

#29. Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Edmund Waller

#30. When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Thomas Sowell

#31. FBI vs. CIA
When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,
he gets a watch.
When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,
he gets watched.
I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~

I know this because I have HBO.

Beryl Dov

#32. I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#33. The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

William C. Bryant

#34. The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.

Oliver Goldsmith

#35. You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

Guido Calabresi

#36. I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.

Kurt Angle

#37. I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

Ozzie Smith

#38. When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds these vices - envy, triumph over the enemy's ill, repulsion of friendly approaches, contempt, slander, derision, personal violence, and injustice. MURDER

John Wortabet

#39. It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age ... What work will get done in the remaining time? ... Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?

Eric Maisel

#40. One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth;
One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.

Pierre-Antoine-Augustin De Piis

#41. When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

Paul Reiser