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When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
— Darren Flutie
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
— Samuel Beckett
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
— H.L. Mencken
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
— Julius Erving
The good thing about being old is not being young.
— Stephen Richards
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
— Scott Bakula
When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.
— Drew Carey
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
— Donald E. Westlake
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.
— Michael Jordan
relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
— Fulton J. Sheen
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
— Robert Maxwell
I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
— Sacheen Littlefeather
I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.
— Bart Cummings
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
— Fernando Pessoa
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
— Samuel Beckett
But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39
— Stephanie Coontz
The guy was so freaking old, he should have retired. Or died.
— Richelle Mead
The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens.
— Adam Christopher
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
— Shannon L. Alder
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
— Michael Caine
I never retired.
— Doris Day
Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
— Lisa Caputo
When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.
— Ricky Williams
San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.
— Vincent Price
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
— Laurie R. King
I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.
— Clint Eastwood
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so ... retired mermaids.
— Milton Jones
I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
— Dick Van Dyke
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
— Judy Woodruff
I quit driving, I'm not retired.
— Richard Petty
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
— Michael East
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
— David Walliams
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
— Christine Pelosi
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
— Agatha Christie
I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.
— Steve Kerr
I retired from everything except work.
— Lee Friedlander
I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.
— Jeff Garlin
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
— Edmund Waller
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
— Sydney Biddle Barrows
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
— Tom T. Hall
I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.
— David Beckham
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
— Joseph Jarman
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
— Jack Nicholson
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
— Duke Ellington
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.
— Vilmos Zsigmond
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
— Nadia Comaneci
I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
— Andy Roddick
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
— Ella Harris
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RETIRED COLOURMAN
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
— Jacky Ickx
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
— George Carlin
I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.
— Ron Brackin
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
— Lauryn Hill
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
— Rickey Henderson
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
— Nelson Mandela
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
— Karl Lagerfeld
... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.
— Louisa May Alcott
Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
— Jack Nicklaus
I've retired my sneakers for stilettos, baby!
— Vivica A. Fox
