Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
~ Simone De Beauvoir

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
~ George Burns

To retire is to die.
~ Pablo Casals

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
~ Lord Chesterfield

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
~ Javier Perez De Cuellar

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
~ George Foreman

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
~ Oliver Goldsmith

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
~ Virginia Graham

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
~ Ernest Hemingway

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love prefers twilight to daylight.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
~ Kin Hubbard

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
~ Samuel Johnson

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

Florida, is Gods waiting room.
~ Glenn Le Grice

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
~ Thurgood Marshall

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
~ Margaret Mead