Retirement Quotes
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. - Lord Chesterfield
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. - Javier Perez De Cuellar
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. - Oliver Goldsmith
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. - Virginia Graham
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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. - Samuel Johnson
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. - Maggie Kuhn
Florida, is Gods waiting room. - Glenn Le Grice
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. - Margaret Mead
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Retirement: Statutory senility. - Emmett O'Donnell
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers. - Lester Piggott
Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages. - William Shakespeare
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age. - Source Unknown
Convent: A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. - Ambrose Bierce
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
We have to thank God for this retirement. - Virgil
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. - George Burns
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. - Norman Vincent Peale
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. - Ernest Hemingway
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. - Dwight David Eisenhower
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcolm S. Forbes
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. - Abigail Adams
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. - Chi Chi Rodriguez
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. - Ella Harris
Retired is being twice tired, I've thought . First tired of working,Then tired of not.- Richard Armour
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. - Merri Brownworth
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. - Gene Perret
I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! - Author Unknown
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. - Terri Guillemets
Retirement: World's longest coffee break. - Author Unknown
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. - Hartman Jule
O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease!- Oliver Goldsmith
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. - Author Unknown
Life begins at retirement. - Author Unknown
The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. - Author Unknown
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. - Gene Perret
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. - Robert Half
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. - J. Lubbock
When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. - Author Unknown
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. - George Foreman
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - 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. - Hartman Jule
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. - Jim Bishop
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. - Harry Vardon
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. - Author Unknown
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. - Gene Perret