Definition of Retired

Retired

of Retire

Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.

Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.

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Retired Quotations

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Omar N. Bradley

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
Julius Erving

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Eric Cantona

People do not retire. They are retired by others.
Duke Ellington

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
William Banting

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
Jackie Stewart

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
Pete Rose

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
Ryan Reynolds

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Chris Christie

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
James Earl Jones

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
Cathy Freeman

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
Dick Van Dyke

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
Paul Ryan

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
Michael Caine

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
George Mason

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
Karl Malone

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
Richard Krajicek

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
Jack Kilby

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
Charles Kuralt

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Sean Penn

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.
Grace Napolitano

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
Mike Wallace

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer

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Retired Translations

retired in Dutch is gepensioneerd, rustend, in ruste
retired in Italian is pensionato
retired in Portuguese is aposentado
retired in Spanish is pensionado, jubilado
retired in Swedish is pensionerad

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