A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

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.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not read more

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

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 trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

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 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.