Top 100 To Retire Quotes
#1. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
#2. Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
Adriaan Kortlandt
#3. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret
#4. When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.
Lupe Fiasco
#5. Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.
David Letterman
#6. I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.
Regis Philbin
#7. Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.
Jim Cummings
#8. We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.
Dave Obey
#9. I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
Russell B. Long
#10. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
Dean Smith
#11. We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That
Glenn Beck
#12. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?
Don Zimmer
#13. Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
Betty White
#15. Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Helen Garner
#16. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker
#17. Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
Cilla Black
#18. There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
Kimbra
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
Samuel Johnson
#22. I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
Larry Ellison
#23. I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.
Richard Seymour
#24. Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
Peggy Lee
#25. If I ever retire, I want it to be in the KISS-FM jersey.
Kidd Kraddick
#26. We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
David Gergen
#27. I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
Paul McCartney
#28. For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
Celso Cukierkorn
#30. If I ever have to see something like that again," he told us, "I will retire and raise dachshunds.
Jeff Lindsay
#31. When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Virginia Graham
#32. After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Charlie Gonzalez
#33. I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.
Stan Lee
#34. 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
#35. There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?
Van Morrison
#36. I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
Ellie Goulding
#37. In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
George Burns
#39. I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
Brian Clough
#40. I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#41. I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
Ansel Adams
#42. With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Frank Keating
#43. 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
#44. Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.
Ted Trueblood
#45. When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.
Greg Ip
#46. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.
Julius Boros
#48. I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.
Jeff Garlin
#49. It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.
Billy Collins
#50. Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.
Bernie Sanders
#51. Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
Herbie Mann
#52. People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.
George Burns
#53. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire. And because this is so, the world is far more interesting, both
Carl Sagan
#54. Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
Tracy Chapman
#55. Is my understanding sufficient for this or not? If it is sufficient, I use it for the work as an instrument given by the universal nature. But if it is not sufficient, then either I retire from the work and give way to him who is able to do it better,
Marcus Aurelius
#56. Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
Al Franken
#57. Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.
Thomas Jones
#58. When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
#59. God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#60. If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.
Lemmy Kilmister
#61. In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
John James Audubon
#62. I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.
David Beckham
#63. You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
M.R. James
#64. I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.
Vincent Lo
#65. I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller
#66. I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
Michael Caine
#67. I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
Barack Obama
#69. The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Gloria Swanson
#70. It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul
#71. Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
Garrison Keillor
#72. If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
Sheldon Adelson
#73. If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.
Steve Bunce
#74. In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.
Brett Favre
#75. Portland is where young people go to retire.
Fred Armisen
#76. Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
Wanda Sykes
#77. 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
#78. We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
Dave Allen
#79. A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Mary Wesley
#80. I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
Louise Mensch
#81. Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.
Dennis Cardoza
#82. Some sleep too much ... Nowhere do the scriptures say, 'Thou shalt sleep eight hours.' Nor do they say, 'Retire early unless you happen to be a night person.' There must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early ... You will profit by this counsel if you heed it ...
Joe J. Christensen
#84. This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.
Rick Wagoner
#85. Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains ... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree ... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. When it's time to retire, maybe I could disappear too." "I always thought you'd end up taking a director's position at S.H.I.E.L.D." "Some day we all retire, Isaiah. The trick is to be sure you do it well before life is done with you.
Nathan Edmondson
#87. I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'
Clint Eastwood
#88. If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.
Margaret Cho
#89. Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.
Brian Tracy
#90. Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie
#92. I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can
Kenneth Clarke
#93. It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
Joe Garagiola
#94. The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank
#95. I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.
Terry Bradshaw
#96. To retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#97. Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins
#98. If you'll have enough saved and nobody has to take on debt and you want to retire, shoot go for it.
Michelle Singletary
#99. To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
Charles Horton Cooley
#100. To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
Walter Lippmann
