Charles de Saint-Evremond Quotes

To retire is to begin to die.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.

I never use that word, retire.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

No American should ever have to spend his golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Ain't no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

When I do retire, I am going to go back to Italy.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.