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"In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire." Charles Francis Adams, Sr. 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time." Bernard Mannes Baruch 4.4615 average rating Rate this Quote
"Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left." George Burns 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself." Baltasar Gracian 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 Butler Leacock 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left." (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" Jim Lehrer 3.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned." Richard Milhouse Nixon 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." Will Rogers 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." George Burns 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire." Margaret Mead 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote


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