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Retiring Quotes

Retiring Definition  
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Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
Billy Joel

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
Anjelica Huston

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
Kenny Cunningham

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.
Tom Osborne

I'm not retiring.
Mel Tillis

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
Ted Knight

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham

Retiring is getting ready to die.
Rodger Ward

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Will Harvey

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Frederik Pohl

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Mary Wortley

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