Retirement Quotes

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

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

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!

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.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

To retire is to begin to die.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

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

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

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

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

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

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.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

I'm a little young for retirement.

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

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

Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

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

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.

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

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.