retire quotes

When a manfell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Lothair, ch.28.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

-Gergen, David Richmond
  In US News &  World Report,10 May.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

-Kinnock, Neil Gordon
  In The Times, 28  Jul.

You can't put off being young until you retire, And however you bank your screw, the money you save Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Money'.

Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets.

-Milton,John
Paradise Regained, bk.2, l.161^2.

   You don't retire in this business.You just notice that the phone has not rung for ten years.

-Mitchell,Warren
  In The Guardian, 31 Dec.

When you retire†you go from who's who to who's that.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  In the NewYorkTimes, 21 Apr.

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