Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

When the time comes to retire, I think I'll know. I really do.

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

I don't know the right way to retire.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

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

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

It's hard to have any idea of how much money is enough to finance an appropriate lifestyle in retirement. But if a lump sum is translated into a monthly income, it's much easier to determine whether you have enough put away to afford to stop working.

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

When I finally quit for the second time in the summer of 2013, I had accepted that this really was the end, and, having got over that, the move into retirement was a lot easier.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

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

I will never retire unless I have to.

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?