Retired Quotes · Page 7

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

— Felix Dennis

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

— Voltaire

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

— Sally Rand

Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I…

— Anderson Silva

“You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”

— Azadeh Moaveni

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

— Michael East

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired…

— Fernando Pessoa

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

— Oprah Winfrey

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that…

— Cesar Pelli

I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would…

— Ann Wolfe

“Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from.…

— Dannika Dark

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling…

— Charles Dance

“For a beach bum you’re not very chill,” said Benny. Bob frowned. “This beach bum is a retired death god who is…

— Adam Christopher

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love'…

— Rob Sheffield

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or…

— Joseph Addison

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help…

— Steve Ballmer

I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release]…

— Richard Branson

I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try…

— Harry Carson

Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it…

— Joan D. Chittister

When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad…

— Mark Fuhrman

Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not…

— Evelyn Underhill

After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would…

— Flann O'Brien

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

— Clint Eastwood

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

— Ernie J Zelinski

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.

— Kellie Pickler

“I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, "No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.”

— Ron Brackin

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

— Jim Harbaugh

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd…

— Bart Cummings

Injuries weren't the reason why I retired. I retired on my own terms.

— Adam Goodes

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

— Núria Añó

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on…

— Sean Penn

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

— Artie Lange

Defensive awards and accolades aside, to have your jersey retired puts you in a position where you'll be known forever.

— Scottie Pippen

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

— Jacky Ickx

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

— Rishi Kapoor

I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

— Lisa Caputo

Since the day I retired from the Celtics, I've submitted to an exercise program.

— John Havlicek