Funny Quotes About Retirement - Page 3

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

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
        —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
        —Simone de Beauvoir

To retire is to die.
        —Pablo Casals

A short retirement urges a sweet return
        —John Milton

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

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
        —G. K. Chesterton

Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.
        —W. GIFFORD-JONES