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Retirement Quotes


These are some of the best 'Retirement' quotations and sayings.


A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

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

He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

How use doth breed a habit in a man! this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.

Let me often to these solitudes retire, and in their presence reassure my feeble virtue.

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

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.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.