Definition of Retiring

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Definition of Retiring
	Retiring of Retire Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. Related Definitions: As, Belonging, Causing, Forward, Modesty, Not, Obtrusive, Of, Or, Pertaining, Reserved, Retire, Retirement, Retiring, Shy, Suited, To

Retiring Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker

Retiring Translations

retiring in French is retirant

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