Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.
Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
Every day that a woman is making less money, that's less money she has in retirement.
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.
I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy. " I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.
Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
Thank Heaven for Retirement!
Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.