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Quotes about retirement

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. (Voltaire1)

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them. ( Louis Armstrong)

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. (Charles de Saint-Evremond)

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)

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ( Ernest Hemingway)

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ( Arthur E. Morgan)

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