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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.
-Matthew Arnold
Morality (st. 2)
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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
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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it
-Hal Borland
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
-George Burns
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To retire is to die.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
-Lord Chesterfield
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
-G. K. Chesterton
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I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
-Javier Perez De Cuellar
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
-Peter Drucker
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I'm happy about my decision and I haven't once said, 'I wonder if I made the wrong decision.' I know it's the right one.
-Brett Favre
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The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
-George Foreman
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
-Johann von Goethe
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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 von Goethe
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
-Virginia Graham
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
-Ernest Hemingway
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
-Kin Hubbard
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
-Samuel Johnson
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
-Maggie Kuhn
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Florida, is Gods waiting room.
-Glenn Le Grice
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I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
-Thurgood Marshall
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
-Margaret Mead
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Books about Retirement
