Retirement Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Retirement

Retirement Quotes & Sayings

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Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner. — Oprah Winfrey

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement. — Simon Hoggart

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. — John Sharp Williams

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share. — Robert Reich

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. — Ron Chernow

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security. — Suze Orman

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather. — Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

Come,
Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
Let's mock the midnight bell. — William Shakespeare

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law — Seneca The Younger

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind. — Joan Of Arc

I'm not afraid of retirement. Retirement sounds like a blast. — Norman Reedus

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement. — Annie Lennox

Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight. — Ernie J Zelinski

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them — Frank Eberhart

A written retirement plan provides an evolving foundation of social purpose and direction for personal growth. — Lee Johnson

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache ... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. — Peter Drucker

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day. — Kathy Gottberg

No, I don't belong to a retirement community. — Sally Kellerman

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments. — Ernie J Zelinski

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. — George Washington

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination. — Richie Norton

I'll wait until we're both old and gray, chasing you around the retirement home while pushing my walker if that's what it takes. — Ann Mayburn

Every artist takes their final work to the grave. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men. — Ginny Brown-Waite

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85. — Robert Fogel

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested. — Steve Israel

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.. — John Paul Stevens

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought. — Ian Anderson

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. — Groucho Marx

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. — Ernie J Zelinski

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels. — John Charles Pollock

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure. — Martina Navratilova

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us. — Marc Singer

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose. — Wilkie Collins

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray. — William Hazlitt

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference. — Kin Hubbard

As a chapter closes in your life,
And a new one starts for you,
May your years be filled with all the things
You've been looking forward to! — John Walter Bratton

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen. — David Letterman

When its time to die, you don't want to realize you haven't lived. — Lee Johnson

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. — Robert Breault

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared. — Ruth Gordon

I don't really have a retirement plan. — Bob Dylan

I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead. — Ron Brackin

IRAs are intended for retirement. — Max Baucus

Retirement in America has come to mean "save enough money so I can quit the job I hate. — Dave Ramsey

God has a plan for your retirement. — Billy Graham

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. — Lord Chesterfield

I want to be around people whose goals in life are more than early retirement and a new double-wide. — Max Mitchell

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it. — Hugh Hefner

If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement. — Toba Beta

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne

Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives. — Rick Warren

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. — Evelyn Waugh

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. — Gene Perret

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money. — David Letterman

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement — Edward Heath

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all. — Ben Stiller

Glad that I live am I;
That the sky is blue;
Glad for the country lanes,
And the fall of dew. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell. — Maggie Kuhn

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security. — Noel Whittaker

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement. — Gabriela Sabatini

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. — Mary Crosby

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret

Anyone with any sense welcomes retirement, — Miss Read

Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream. — Jean Chatzky

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. — Betty White

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement. — Jerry Doyle

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone De Beauvoir

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. — Mason Cooley

Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A short retirement urges a sweet return. — John Milton

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. — R. C. Sherriff

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.' — Lindy Booth

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong. — R. H. Tawney

In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement, — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party. — Artie Lange

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. — Tammy Baldwin

Tip #7: Gray Divorce-'Til Retirement do us Part? — Mary Helen Conroy

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left — George Burns

I've enjoyed my retirement. — Darrell Royal

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. — Betty White

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese. — J. Paul Getty

What else am I going to do with my retirement? I just want to tell as many people about the gospel as I can." If — David Platt

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer! — Chipper Jones

Good memories are my retirement plan. — Atticus

I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement. — Hank Greenwald

Modesty and dew love the shade. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund. — Romesh Wadhwani

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new. — Clint Eastwood