Retire? I'm not going to ease up, let up, shut up or give up until I'm taken up. In fact I'm just getting warmed up.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Retirement: statutory senility.

Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.