Quotes with retire

  • There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
  • 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.

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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Moore A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch 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.
    On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bill Engvall As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill Copeland Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • William Arthur Ward Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Anthony Holden But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • 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 laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Carol Moseley Braun If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Caroll Spinney Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Casey Stoner Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.
    Casey Stoner
    Australian professional motorcycle racer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Rauner Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Margaret Mead Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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