Retiring Quotes

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

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

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

I don't know the right way to retire.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

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

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

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.

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

People retire to do what I do every day.

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer.

A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Everyone is saying that I'm retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don't want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.

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

the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

I will die, but not retire.

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

I'm a performer. We don't retire.