老爵爺弗格森宣布退休，“生姜頭”斯科爾斯與“萬人迷”貝克漢姆也要掛靴退役，球迷感嘆眼看偶像扎堆 “退休”，逼著我們告別青春。英語里“退休”、“退役”都可以用“retire”表示。今天我們就一起聊聊名人眼中“退休”這件事。

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

退休的麻煩就是你再沒休息日可言了。

——Abe Lemons

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

一個男人退休了，他的妻子將會得到雙倍的丈夫和減半的收入。

——Chi Chi Rodriguez

Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.

退休或許是一種結束，但它也是一次全新的開始。

——Catherine Pulsifer

Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.

退休意味著你可以做自己想做的事。 它給了我們選擇。

——Dianne Nahirny

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

音樂家不會退休，只有在譜不出音樂時，他們才會罷手。

——Louis Armstrong

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

有些人在停止工作前就早已“退休”了。

——Robert Half

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older, I find that I don’t want to do them.

我曾經害怕變老，感到那時自己想做的事都無力去做了。可現在我老了，卻發現那些已經不是我想做的事了。

——Lady Nancy Astor

Don’t wait for retirement to be happy and really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they have waited much too long.

不要等到退休后才開始生活，尋找幸福。有這樣想法的人總會發現自己花了太長的時間去等待。

——Life’s Secret Guide to Happiness