Famous Retirement Quotes, Funny Retirement Quotes, Inspirational Retirement Quotes
You'll Laugh (or Cry) When You Read These Famous Quotations About Retirement
As you plan retirement, NewRetirement thought you might enjoy reading some noted quotations on this phase of life.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Author Unknown
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
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
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Choose a work that you love and you won't have to work another day.
Confucius
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
To retire is to die.
Pablo Casals
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
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
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Author Unknown
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Author Unknown
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
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Ernest Hemingway
Choose a work that you love and you won't have to work another day.
Confucius
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
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
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.
Jonathan Clements
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato
Money is something you got to make in case you don’t die.
Max Asnas
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
Mario Puzo
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
Tennessee Williams
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
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
You have to put off being young until you can retire.
Author Unknown
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
George Burns
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
Rita Rudner
I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
Greer Garson
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
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.
Arthur E. Morgan
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William A. Ward
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Source Unknown
God's retirement plan is out of this world.
Source Unknown
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