Funny Retirement Quotes - Page 5

• The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

  William Hazlitt

  Retirement, Passion, Heart

  William Hazlitt (1918). “Twenty-two Essays of William Hazlitt”

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• There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

  James Herriot

  Retirement, Fall, Animal

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Retirement, Struggle, Thinking

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• I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

  Mos Def

  Names, Retiring

  "Mos Def To Retire His Name, Will Become Yasiin". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Retirement, Thinking, Trying

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• As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

  Alan Jackson

  Retirement, Long, Albums

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

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• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Decision, Retiring

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• We have to thank God for this retirement.

  Virgil

  Retirement, Thank God

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• Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

  Julia Roberts

  Retirement, Couple, Kids

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• I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, Want, Noise

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• Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

  Bill Vaughan

  Retirement, Healthy, Busy

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• The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Retirement, Theatre, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Retirement, Fun, Thinking

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• He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Retirement, Genius

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