They Said What!?........

“When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons”
George Carlin

“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 do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond

“Work is not of value, life is of value so living is the highest priority one should have. There are millions of things to do that are not work, are of high value, and contribute to society and most of them have nothing to do with work”.
Hugh H. Johnson
Happily Retired Citizen of the World

“The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself”.
H. L. Mencken

“People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick

“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 M. Baruch

“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
Voltaire

“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
Bette Davis

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 do not regret it.”
Charles de Saint-Evremond

“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”
Ernest Hemingway

“A short retirement urges a sweet return.”
John Milton

“The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.”
W. Gifford-Jones