Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only read more

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able
man.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able
man.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the
army, even before the turn of read more

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.