Retirement quotations

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◆ You get old faster when you think about retirement.

- Toba Beta99

◆ When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

- Gail Sheehy98

◆ Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

- Samuel Johnson98

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

- Margaret Mead98

◆ Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

- Bernard M Baruch98

◆ I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

- Bette Davis98

◆ Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

- Simone De Beauvoir98

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

- George F Burns98

◆ Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

- Judy Biggert98

◆ 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 Wolfgang Von Goethe98

◆ To retire is to die.

- Pablo Casals98

◆ To retire is to begin to die

- Pablo Casals98

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

- G K Chesterton98

◆ Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.

- W GIFFORD-JONES98

◆ When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired

- Charles De Saint-Evremond98