Andy Rooney Quotes

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

People retire to do what I do every day.

Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.

I work very, very hard, so when I do get the chance to go out socially, it's a relatively big night. I also have hobbies on the side, and quite often, one runs into the other.

That's the joy of retirement - you're not trying to develop a career any more.

I will travel a lot after my career.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.

For me, being in retirement, it was just having the opportunity to watch other stuff and do different things.

I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.

Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

Ride it when you retire.

Retirement is just not in my DNA.

It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.