Retiring Quotes - Page 30

• How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

  Stephen Leacock

  Life, Retirement, Growing Up

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

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• I'm a performer. We don't retire.

  Robert Goulet

  Performers

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• My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, Political

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• My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

  David Spade

  Nerd, Calculators, Fellows

  "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
  This unfrequented place to find some ease.

  John Milton

  Retirement, Ease, Noise

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.172

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• I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

  Tim Gunn

  Teacher, Careers, Wonderful

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• I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

  Robert Redford

  Havens, Dies

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• You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Jobs, Wanted

  "Ozzy Osbourne: What I've Learned". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

  J. G. Holland

  Memories, Struggle, Home

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• For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life... To earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Kids, Giving

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
  [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Character, Thyself

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• To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Ambition, Sea, Spurs

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Thinking, House

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• Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

  Edmund Waller

  World, Admire, Carrie

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187

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• Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

  Francis Quarles

  Atheist, Philosophy, Journey

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.89

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• Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

  Agatha Christie

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

  Robert Southey

  Men, House, Physicians

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• Portland is where young people go to retire.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Portland, Young

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• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  Fernando Torres

  Team, Self, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

  Walter Wriston

  Aging

  1985 In the New York Times, 21 Apr.

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• I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.

  Tom Ford

  Want

  "Tom Ford Unzipped: Interview Transcript". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

  Megan Mullally

  Gone, Comedy, Dignity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Home, Media, Social

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