Retirement Quotes - Page 7

• Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

  Elaine Chao

  Lost, Assets, States

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• I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• 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

  Tunnels, Light, Achieve

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Attitude, Grandma, Grandpa

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• Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Politics, Pathetic

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• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Age, Twenties, Sound

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• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  William Cowper

  Kings, Home, Winter

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

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• Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

  Sid Gillman

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it.
  Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

  Richard Ford

  Dream, Farewell, Thinking

  1992 'An Urge for Going', in Harper's, Feb.

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Farewell, Lasts

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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• Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

  Drake

  Looks, Bragging, Bank Accounts

  Song: The Language

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• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Teaching, Ambition

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• Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

  Bob Arum

  Funny, Long, Boxing

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• But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

  Clay Aiken

  Teacher, Teaching, Counting

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• I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

  Craig Kilborn

  Wine, Red, Way

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Sunset, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

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• There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

  Bono

  Art, Mastery, Way

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• Look, we're trying to explore other options to your retirement," the whitecoat said. "You might be useful to us in other ways." Because we're not that useful dead,"Nudge said thoughtfully. No," I agreed. "Well, maybe as doorstops." The whitecat made an "eew" expression. Or those things in a parking lot that show where the cars should stop," suggested Iggy. He closed his eyes and went stiff, to demonstrate what it would look like. Also an option.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Expression, Nudge Nudge

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• She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

  A. A. Milne

  Bird, Tree, Looks

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Once on a Time”, p.206, The Floating Press

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• We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.

  Wendell Berry

  Ambition, Weekend, Vacation

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.36, Counterpoint Press

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• It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

  Richelle Mead

  Jesus, Wall, Sorry

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• but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Flower, Loss

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

  Will Harvey

  Practice, Retiring

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