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As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
I'm not retiring.
It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
Old teachers never die, they just grade away.
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
I've elected to age gracefully.
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
A man is as old as his arteries.
I am in the prime of senility.
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
You are the grand estate and administrator of - now.
I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
To retire is to begin to die.
I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.
retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.
Old folks is the nation.
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead.
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Age-- Carol Grace
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.
Mainstream doctors are turned off by geriatrics, and that's because they do not have the faculties to cope with the Old Crock," Felix Silverstone,
Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!
Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
Be kind to an old man.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
The guy was so freaking old, he should have retired. Or died.
His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, for what?
Asleep in lap of legends old.
At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
To retire is to die.
We are the heirs of the ages
Thank Heaven for Retirement!
Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.
No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.
My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise.
Nobody loves life like an old man.
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
You've had a long working life
As everyone knows
You can now do nothing at all
And then have a doze
Enjoy Your Retirement
Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.
I'm the oldest antique in town.
I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
I like retirement.
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it's an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn't life a play? Don't I play it well?
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Blessed are the elderly men and women.
An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.
My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.
The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair.
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.
A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.
As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
Take care of the elderly people.
Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.
Dr. Henry Lodge, coauthor of Younger Next Year, makes the point sharply. "It turns out," he says, "that 70% of American aging is not real aging. It's just decay. It's rot from the stuff that we do.
I'm a performer. We don't retire.
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
I'm happy in retirement.
Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO