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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.
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 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.
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than read more
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it
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.
 There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the 
job.  
 There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the 
job. 
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
 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. 
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.