Retired Quotes

259 Retired quotes by 230 unique authors

Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize… — Unknown Author
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and… — Charles de Saint-Evremond
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans… — John Shadegg
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers… — John Shadegg
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City. — Robert MacNeil
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'… — William Banting
The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or… — Robert Redford
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But… — Thomas Sowell
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage. — E. Howard Hunt
Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won… — Richard Krajicek
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more… — Richard Krajicek
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,'… — Myla Goldberg
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years. — Barbara Mandrell
Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies. — Dan Fouts
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend. — Joey Barton
I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running… — Howie Carr
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it… — Henry Fairlie
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. — David Cone
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with… — George Mason
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons. — George Carlin
I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for… — Nate Robinson
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward,… — Thomas Holcomb

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