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Retirement Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
- Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted…
More Retirement Quotes
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- 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
- Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets… — Glenn Beck
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis
- Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. — Milton Berle
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce