Retirement Quotes
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When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. (Quote by - Chi Chi Rodriguez)
A short retirement urges a sweet return. (Quote by - John Milton)
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. (Quote by - Ella Harris)
Retirement, a time to rediscover your passion.What would you work at if you didn't have to earn money! (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. (Quote by - Dwight Moody)
While some people can't wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week. (Quote by - Joseph Gies)
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (Quote by - J. Lubbock)
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. (Quote by - John Sharp Williams)
I have enjoyed it all and I have some beautiful memories. I raced hard with great champions like Alain, who was my friend. And with Ayrton and Nigel and Michael, of course. We had some great races together and I was always proud to race them. [on retirement] (Quote by - Jean Alesi)
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. (Quote by - Alex Comfort)
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. (Quote by - R.C. Sherriff)
Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
I think it is true what they say that retirement is the death of some people, so more and more people are choosing to do work of some sort when they have retired. (Quote by - Anna Harrison)
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. (Quote by - Horace)
Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of Mr. George Miley from his dubious retirement (Quote by - John Le Carre)
I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement] (Quote by - Mika Hakkinen)
I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. (Quote by - Andre Agassi)
Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice. (Quote by - Dianne Nahirny)
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. (Quote by - Abe Lemons)
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. (Quote by - Merri Brownworth)
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. (Quote by - Seneca)
Love prefers twilight to daylight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. (Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement? (Quote by - John Doolittle)
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. (Quote by - Simone De Beauvoir)
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. (Quote by - Louis Armstrong)
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. (Quote by - Jonathan Clements)
They'll have to beat me out of here with a stick [on retirement at Barclays] (Quote by - Matt Barrett)
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache unless you play golf. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. (Quote by - Harry Mahtar )
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. (Quote by - George Burns)
You can't put off being young until you retire. (Quote by - Philip Larkin)
A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'em to get a life. (Quote by - Larry Laser)
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
They [governing bodies] have to do something, otherwise more and more referees will be forced out of the game. [after the retirement of Anders Frisk] (Quote by - Urs Meier)
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. (Quote by - Abigail Charleson)
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. (Quote by - Robert Half)
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. (Quote by - Cato the Elder)
There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. (Quote by - Scott Elledge)
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. (Quote by - George Foreman)
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. (Quote by - Jim Bishop)
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. (Quote by - Scott Cook)
Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. (Quote by - Hartman Jule)
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. (Quote by - Hartman Jule)
