I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)

I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. (Quote by - Merri Brownworth)

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. (Quote by - Seneca)

Love prefers twilight to daylight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. (Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)

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. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement? (Quote by - John Doolittle)

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. (Quote by - Simone De Beauvoir)

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. (Quote by - Louis Armstrong)

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. (Quote by - Jonathan Clements)

They'll have to beat me out of here with a stick [on retirement at Barclays] (Quote by - Matt Barrett)

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache unless you play golf. (Quote by - Gene Perret)

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. (Quote by - Harry Mahtar )

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. (Quote by - George Burns)

You can't put off being young until you retire. (Quote by - Philip Larkin)

A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'em to get a life. (Quote by - Larry Laser)

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)

They [governing bodies] have to do something, otherwise more and more referees will be forced out of the game. [after the retirement of Anders Frisk] (Quote by - Urs Meier)

Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. (Quote by - Abigail Charleson)