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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Americans hardly ever retire from business; they are either carried out feet first or they jump from a window.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a clock.
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.
To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.
Sterne.
He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Bulwer.
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare.
Let me often to these solitudes retire, and in their presence reassure my feeble virtue.
Bryant.
A man who can retire from the world to seek entertainment in his closet, has a thousand advantages of which other people have no idea. He is master of his own company and pleasures, and can command either the one or the other according to his circumstances or temper. All nature is ready for his view, and all ages appear at his call. He can transport himself to the most and politest company that ever the world afforded.
Hibernicu’s Letters.
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep its fruit until it be ripe.
Chrysostom.
Nature I will court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Smollett.
Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to which it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love for study.
Burgh.
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Johnson.
a foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and makes us taste its blessings.
Dryden.
How use doth breed a habit in a mind! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Shakespeare.
Americans hardly ever retire from business; they are either carried out feet first or they jump from a window.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a clock.
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.
To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.
Sterne.
He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
Bulwer.
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare.
Let me often to these solitudes retire, and in their presence reassure my feeble virtue.
Bryant.
A man who can retire from the world to seek entertainment in his closet, has a thousand advantages of which other people have no idea. He is master of his own company and pleasures, and can command either the one or the other according to his circumstances or temper. All nature is ready for his view, and all ages appear at his call. He can transport himself to the most and politest company that ever the world afforded.
Hibernicu’s Letters.
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep its fruit until it be ripe.
Chrysostom.
Nature I will court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Smollett.
Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to which it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love for study.
Burgh.
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Johnson.
a foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and makes us taste its blessings.
Dryden.
How use doth breed a habit in a mind! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Shakespeare.
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