Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
— Margaret Mead
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
— Bette Davis
Retirement: Statutory senility.
— Emmett O'Donnell
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach
“retirement” age seem very admirable to me.
— Helen Hayes
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he
died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.
— W. Gifford-Jones
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part
of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves
have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before
you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape?
That's retirement.
— Stephen Leacock
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 (1905-1995), U.S. civil rights activist
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return
to the hedonism of youth
— Mason Cooley
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
— Ernest Hemingway
I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible
and almost unsupportable hurry.
— Sarah Siddons
To retire is to die.
— Pablo Casals (Spanish Cellist and Conductor)
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
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