Funny Retirement Quotes - Page 4

• We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Teacher, Retirement, Math

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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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, Retirement, Flower

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

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• Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Strength, Retirement

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Time, Retirement, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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• Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Work, Unemployment

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• The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Retirement, Military

  "Other People's Trades" by Primo Levi, ("Ex-Chemist"), 1985.

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• Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

  Greer Garson

  Retirement, Wish, Age

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

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• Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Retirement, Worry

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

  Regis Philbin

  Retirement, Moving, Thinking

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• Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

  Michael Phelps

  Retirement, Done, Retiring

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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Literature, Firsts

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

  Shawn Johnson

  Retirement, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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• I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

  Billy Joel

  Retirement, People, Retiring

  "Pop quiz classic: Billy Joel". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

  Thierry Henry

  Retirement, Stopping, Retiring

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• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  Tanya Tucker

  Retirement, Retiring

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• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  Marat Safin

  Retirement, Answers, Retiring

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• There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

  Julie Walters

  Baby, Retirement, Way Forward

  "Julie Walters criticises lack of roles for older female actors" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Retirement, Wall, Glasses

  Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

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• You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

  Al Pacino

  Retirement, Thinking, Insecurity

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Retirement, Home, Vacation

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