Retirement's Quotes

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

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

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. — Scott Bakula

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me. — Dick Van Dyke

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

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work. — Benjamin Franklin

Retirement isn't a goal; it's a sentence. — Ari Gold

The Retirement Savings Drain: The Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s, — Anthony Robbins

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is. — George Foreman

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton

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

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure. — Barton Gellman

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

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret

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

She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need? — Libby Fischer Hellmann

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

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

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

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement. — Joe Torre

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

There's plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well. — Morton Shaevitz

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. — Bob Arum

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. — Henry Moore

However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement. — Witness Lee

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret

You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong. — Morton Shaevitz

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. — Virginia Graham

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. — Ella Harris

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

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

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. — Horace

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers. — Lester Piggott

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player. — Virender Sehwag

Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay. — Jean Giraudoux

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income. — Kirsten Gillibrand

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire! — Groucho Marx

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are. — Linda Goodman

Tip #3: Taking the Next Step(s) — Mary Helen Conroy

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement. — Scott Cook

The very last thing the Queen needs to do before retirement is to dub Shaun Ryder an OBE. It's decided. — M.C. O'Neill

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. — Sharron Angle

Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income. — Suze Orman

Gertrude reckoned sherry had been as much to do with Myrtle's early retirement as had the demands of celebrating Diwali. — John Wiltshire

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet. — Keith Richards

Tip #1: Let's Retire the Word Retire! — Mary Helen Conroy

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking. — Ronnie Wood

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

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