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I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things. — Yohji Yamamoto

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often. — Marianne Faithfull

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. — Mike Wallace

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. — Edmund Waller

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators. — David Spade

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court. — Rebecca Lobo

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. — John Sharp Williams

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease. — John Milton

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there. — George Benson

The good thing about being old is not being young. — Stephen Richards

If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung? — Colin Mochrie

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player! — Jack Wilshere

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick. — Bode Miller

The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with. — Bill Bryson

Retiring is getting ready to die. — Rodger Ward

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. — Goran Ivanisevic

A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. — David Letterman

Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology. — David Letterman

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life. — Hermann Hesse

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire. — Denzel Washington

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done. — Michael Phelps

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. — Buddy Guy

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire — Shahid Afridi

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault

Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end. — Ernie J Zelinski

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. — Shawn Johnson

Ride it when you retire. — Terry Bradshaw

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born. — John Barrowman

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much. — Aristotle.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. — Jim Crace

The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out. — Elbert Hubbard

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring. — Justin Bieber

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you. — Michael Caine

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked. — Kyle Busch

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. — Thomas Jefferson

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance. — Mason Cooley

What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring. — Robert Redford

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house. — Tom Osborne

Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer roles. — David Niven

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. — Ted Knight

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. — Theodore Bikel

The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy. — Laurence Binyon

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general — Jack Shane

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. — Samuel Johnson

When I was younger, I thought about retiring. — Tanya Tucker

I don't know why people thought I was retiring. — Billy Joel

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. — Thomas Jefferson

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. — Aaron Peirsol

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. — Wavy Gravy

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue. — Gordon Gee

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring. — Anne McLellan

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.' — Leonard Slatkin

I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire. — Ronald Meyer

Dont retire - inspire ... Theres a lot to be done — Mickey Rooney

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.' — Rickey Henderson

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring. — Amy Jo Martin

I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference. — Kevin Drew

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. — Milton Berle

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead! — Alfred Eisenstaedt

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. — Will Harvey

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it. — Ozzy Osbourne

The money doesn't interest me. I'm not enjoying MotoGP, and I'm retiring. — Casey Stoner

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left — George Burns

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person. — Franz Kafka

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me. — Nicklas Lidstrom

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped. — Thierry Henry

One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives. — Albert Camus

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. — Anthony Hopkins

I never thought of retiring. I'm a racer. — Connie Kalitta

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life, — Haile Gebrselassie

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself. — Ivan Lendl

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all. — Paul McCartney

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens

I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. — Elaine Stritch

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play. — Drew Bledsoe

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement. — Thomas Jefferson

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case. — Jim Crace

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. — Andy Rooney

I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with them. — Pamela Anderson

I'm not retiring. — Mel Tillis

When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. — William Wilberforce

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave. — Herman Melville

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That? — Walter Wriston

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others. — Ernie J Zelinski

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport. — Tony Parker

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. — Gabriela Sabatini

I'm retiring because my time is up. — Dave Hickey

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible. — R.C. Sproul

You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong. — Morton Shaevitz

To retire is the beginning of death. — Pablo Casals

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference. — Kin Hubbard

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out. — Colonel Sanders

It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you ... — Alex Zanardi

The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner? — Woody Hayes

Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home — Aliko Dangote