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Famous
retirement speeches and quotes
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the
income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez quotes (Puerto Rican golfer, b.1935)
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for
retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not
regret it
Charles de Saint-Evremond
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.
Anonymous quotes
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Robert Half
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life
which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on
retirement.
Dwight Moody quotes (American evangelist 1839-1899)
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman
Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does
Anonymous
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. Baruch quotes (American president, financier and adviser to US
presidents, 1870-1965)
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong (American leading trumpeter, one of the greatest artists
in jazz history, 1901-1971)
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter F. Drucker
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it
the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
-Jonathan Clements
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on
the mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree...
when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
-Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-Vince Lombardi
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life
which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on
RETIREMENT.
Arthur E. Morgan
To retire is to begin to die.
- Pablo Casals
Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day
which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and
forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control,
diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred
virtues which the idle will never know.
-Basil Carpenter
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had
pimples.
George Burns
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even
before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish
hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at
West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still
remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which
proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career
and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave
him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
- General Douglas MacArthur, in a speech to a joint session of the U.S.
Congress
Retirement : Statutory senility.
Emmett O'Donnell
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes (American clergyman 1878-1969)
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Ernest Hemingway
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy
-Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Scott Elledge, on his retirement from Cornell
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