Retire Quotes

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

I never use that word, retire.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

To retire is to begin to die.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.