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Retirement

«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.»
«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»
«I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy»
«Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.»
«Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick | About: Retirement | Keywords: retire
«Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.»
Author: Louis Armstrong | About: Music, Retirement | Keywords: musicians, retire
«I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.»
Author: Bette Davis | About: Retirement | Keywords: retire
«A short retirement urges a sweet return»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Retirement | Keywords: retirement
«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.»
«I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.»

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