Retirement Quotes

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow more

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.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able
man.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able
man.

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the
army, even before the turn of more

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the
army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment
of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the
plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since
vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most
barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that
old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military
career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his
duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only more

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.