Retiring quotes:

Send

Retiring is getting ready to die. -- Rodger Ward
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. -- Jim Crace
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. -- Paul Harvey
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. -- Paul Harvey
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. -- Aaron Peirsol
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease. -- John Milton
Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. -- Theodore Bikel
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. -- Milton Berle
Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me. -- Nicklas Lidstrom
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. -- Paulo Coelho
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. -- Shawn Johnson
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case. -- Jim Crace
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. -- Junior Seau
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case. -- Jim Crace
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. -- Ian Botham
Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business. -- Anita Roddick
A man can't retire his experience. -- Bernard Baruch
To retire is to begin to die. -- Pablo Casals
To retire is the beginning of death. -- Pablo Casals
When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference. -- Kin Hubbard
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire! -- Groucho Marx
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. -- Louis Armstrong
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. -- Margaret Mead
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. -- Bette Davis
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. -- George Foreman
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left -- George Burns
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. -- Gail Sheehy
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. -- Virginia Graham
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. -- Nelson Mandela
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
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. -- Samuel Johnson
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
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. -- Richard M. Nixon
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 Baruch
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. -- William Arthur Ward
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 Johnson
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no. -- Nelson Mandela
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. -- Ogden Nash
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight. -- Sylvester Stallone
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring. -- Jim Bunning
As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything. -- Marla Gibbs
Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. -- Harriet Martineau
Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling. -- Scott Stossel
I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun. -- Dick Van Dyke
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. -- Yuichiro Miura
I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements. -- Richard Lamm
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. -- Lord Chesterfield
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring. -- James Herriot
Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch. -- Charles R. Swindoll
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. -- David Rubenstein
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. -- Al Pacino
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself? -- Betty White
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared. -- Dorothy Allison
I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now. -- Regis Philbin
A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans. -- Jason Newsted
My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring. -- Justin Bieber
I'm retiring because my time is up. -- Dave Hickey
Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done. -- Michael Phelps
I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer. -- Connie Kalitta
When I was younger, I thought about retiring. -- Tanya Tucker
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person. -- Franz Kafka
I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring. -- Robert Redford
I don't know why people thought I was retiring. -- Billy Joel
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. -- Mos Def
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. -- Andy Rooney
I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all. -- Paul McCartney
It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you... -- Alex Zanardi
I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career. -- Don Howe
The money doesn't interest me. I'm not enjoying MotoGP, and I'm retiring. -- Casey Stoner
Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. -- Ted Knight
I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire. -- Ronald Meyer
No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped. -- Thierry Henry
I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there. -- George Benson
Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring. -- Jay Leno
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou. -- Samir Nasri
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. -- Elaine Stritch
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play. -- Drew Bledsoe
I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football) -- Robbie Savage
I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things. -- Yohji Yamamoto
I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life, -- Haile Gebrselassie
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others. -- Ernie J Zelinski
The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner? -- Woody Hayes
When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring. -- Johnny Weissmuller
Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born. -- John Barrowman
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.' -- Rickey Henderson
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. -- Goran Ivanisevic
Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring. -- Anne McLellan
I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house. -- Tom Osborne
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them -- Ogden Nash
Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home -- Aliko Dangote
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. -- Anthony Hopkins
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often. -- Marianne Faithfull
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring. -- Carolina Herrera
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. -- Iris Murdoch
I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself. -- Ivan Lendl
I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well. -- Leonard Slatkin
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement. -- Thomas Jefferson
I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.' -- Leonard Slatkin
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. -- Wavy Gravy
I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court. -- Rebecca Lobo
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player! -- Jack Wilshere
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history. -- Keith Richards
I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. -- Dolly Parton
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life. -- Hermann Hesse
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. -- Jean Paul
I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring. -- Betty White
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. -- William Wilberforce
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson
I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick. -- Bode Miller
A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. -- David Letterman
It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling. -- Marco Rubio

Send