Retirement Quotes

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.