Retirement Quotes
These are some of the best 'Retirement' quotations and sayings.
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A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
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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 drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
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How use doth breed a habit in a man! this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
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Let me often to these solitudes retire, and in their presence reassure my feeble virtue.
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions - thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
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