THE
RETIREMENT QUOTES CAFÉ
Retirement Quotes
and
Retirement Sayings
The Retirement Quotes Café is the ultimate
webpage of retirement quotes and retirement sayings, for the retirement-party organizer, human resource specialist,
professional speaker, financial writer, journalist, author, and connoisseur of great quotations. You will find
appropriate retirement quotes for women, teacher retirement quotes, and inspirational quotes about life for
retirement on this website. These quotations should add spice to your conversations, remind you humorously of
your questionable existence, motivate you to greater accomplishments, or just plainly lighten your day.
First Top-Ten List of Retirement
Quotes
Retire from work, but not from life.
— M. K. Soni
I'm kind of sorry about leaving — but not sorry enough to stay.
— Arthur Black, former radio host, upon his retirement at 58 from CBC Radio's show Basic Black
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
I never stopped doing anything [when I retired], I stopped getting paid for it.
— Bill Chavanne
Retirement is a time to make the inner journey and come face to face with your flaws,
failures, prejudices, and all the factors that generate thoughts of unhappiness. Retirement is not a time to
sleep, but a time to awaken to the beauty of the world around you and the joy that comes when you cast out all
the negative elements that cause confusion and turmoil in your mind and allow serenity to prevail.
— Howard Salzman
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
— Abe Lemons
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous — don't be a burden on others.
— Ernie Zelinski
My retirement plan is to find a shopping cart with good snow tires.
— Patty Doyle
The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
— Susan Miller
If we wait until retirement to enjoy ourselves, there may not be enough of ourselves to
enjoy it.
— Mike Hammar
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Second Top-Ten List of Retirement
Quotes
The concept of freedom is never truly realized until one settles into retirement mode.
— A. Major
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
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
— George F. Burns
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
— Gene Perret
Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.
— from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
Age [along with retirement] appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old
wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old
authors to read.
— Francis Bacon
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
— Abigail Charleson
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
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
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
— Samuel Johnson
Retirement Quotes — The Right Time to
Retire
Retirement will become evident to me at the time.
— Peter Brock
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
— Henry Moore
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
— Workplace graffiti
By the age of 65, most of us have accomplished whatever work-related goals we are going to
reach. If you haven't done it by then, chances are you aren't going to do it. Take the retirement, take the
pension, take the Social Security, and sail off into the sunset.
— Sue Lasky
Being 54, I seriously doubt I'll ever be able to fully retire. It would probably kill me
anyway sitting around the house watching the grass grow. Am not saying that I plan on working 40 hours per week
until I drop, however, I would rather work 25 hours per week starting at 60 and working til 65, then 20 hours
until 70 and 15 per week after that. That way I can enjoy retirement earlier and longer. Besides, the
government will figure out a way to wipe out my retirement accounts long before they put me in the ground ....
either that or some quack doctor.
— "Catbluize" (pen name for a person commenting on a retirement article)
Most people will never be able to retire and maintain even a hotdogs for dinner standard of
living
— Timothy Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek
It's tough to get reallocated when you're the one who's redundant.
— MacDonald's Law
I have made enough faces.
— Greta Garbo (in 1946 refusing ever again to perform)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry
that you retire.
— Samuel Johnson
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
— George Foreman
Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.
— Robert Fogel
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
— Betty White
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
— Pete Sampras
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
— Unknown Wise Person
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Retirement Quotes — What Is
Important
in Retirement
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
— Mason Cooley
But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life of retirement?
A man may be weary of the toils and torments of business, and yet
quite unfit for the tranquil retreat. Without literature, friendship,
and religion, retirement is in most cases found to be a dead, flat
level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body nor the soul
can enjoy health and life in a vacuum.
— Richter
As much as we live in a democratically free society, we are not
as free as we think. When slinging hash at the workplace, we are weighed down by time constrictions, energy
limitations and much undue stress.
— A. Major
Slow down and enjoy life [in retirement]. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too
fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
— Eddie Cantor
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 (in retirement)
Retirement Quotations
— Advice on How to Retire
Happy
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the
ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
Stay busy [when you retire]. If you are going to sit on the couch and watch TV, you are
going to die.
— Bill Chavanne
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
Don't act your age [in retirement]. Act like the inner young person you have always
been.
— J. A. West
Advice on Whether
to Take Early
Retirement
If I'd known that retirement was going to be this good I'd have done it the day after I left
school !!!
— Mickey White (who lives in the United Kingdom and wrote to Ernie Zelinski about his retirement book.)
We have no porch, no rocking chair — and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because
there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire — the younger the better.
— Maurice Musholt
Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.
— Munder's Law
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Gagehot
When is the right age to retire? When you dread going to work.
— Mary Bright
Retirement
Sayings and Retirement
Quotes — Definitions of
Retirement
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
— Mason Cooley
Retirement: Twice the husband, half the money!
— Unknown wise retired married person
Retirement: When you have given so much of yourself to the Company that you don't have
anything left that the company can use.
— Unknown burnt-out retired person
Retirement to me does not mean nothing to do but the realization of the decisions I made in
the past. That I made in my life.
— Jack Bowman
Difficulties of
Retirement
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
— Vince Lombardi
Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it.
First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work
force, they become imprisoned by retirement.
— Ernie J. Zelinski in the international best-seller How to Retire Happy,
Wild, and Free
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To retire is the beginning of death.
— Pablo Casals
Retirement takes all the meaning out of weekends.
— Unknown retired person
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no
contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
— Anthony Trollope
Humorous Retirement Sayings
and
Funny Retirement
Quotes
He who laughs last at the boss's jokes probably isn't far from retirement.
— Unknown wise working person
Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly
deceived.
— Ernie Zelinski
When you see some people work you wonder what they will do in retirement.
— Unknown wise workaholic
The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel
Sanders was a friend of chickens.
— Charles T. Manatt
I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!
— Unknown wise and happy retiree
Retirement Quotations — Early
Retirement
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
— Robert Half
I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
— Paul Hogan
We’ll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won’t be the last time. Everyone’s
rocking.
— Ronnie Wood, (in July 2010 at age 63, in response to rumors that the Rolling Stores were going to
retire.)
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
I don't really have any career goals at this point. I'm 35 and have no need or plans to ever
work again [in retirement].
— Eric Kanowsky (of Santa Barbara, CA, who took early retirement from Software.com in 2000)
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit . . . . retire!
— Groucho Marx
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
— Peter Drucker
Retirement Quotations — How to
Retire
Happy, Wild, and Free
In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
— Mason Cooley
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 8.
— from Graffiti for the Enlightened Soul
The only way to avoid being miserable [in retirement] is not to have enough leisure to
wonder whether you are happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
We've put more effort into helping folks reach retirement age
than into helping them enjoy it.
— Unknown wise person
Mandatory Retirement
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
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
— Scott Bakula
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five, I still had pimples.
— George Burns
Men and Women in
Retirement
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
— Gail Sheehy
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.
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
— Ella Harris
Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings — People Contemplating
Retirement
What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living.
Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?
— J. A. West
I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers
any more.
— Max von Sydow
I'm regularly asked what my plan [for retirement] is, and I deliberately don't have
much of a plan. I've had lots of plans in my life and it might be nice to have a period that is less
planned.
— Malcolm Hamilton, Actuary and One of Canada's Leading Authorities on Retirement Planning and
Pensions
He who laughs last at the boss's jokes probably isn't far from retirement.
— Unknown wise person
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes.
There are things in there that ought to be burned.
— Richard Milhouse Nixon
Why Some People
Give Up Retirement
For the loot, honey, for the loot.
— Ava Gardner, (On why she came out of retirement to appear on a prime time soap opera.)
It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!'
It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin
with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring — when you die.
— Ozzy Osbourne
She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to
change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.
— Retired Stuntman Evel Knievel at 63, considering coming out of retirement
A [retirement] place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most
obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his
own image.
— Joan Didionire
Inspirational Quotes about Life for
Retirement
To learn anything truly valuable that will make a remarkable difference
in your life, you must set aside the safety of your belief system.
That is not so easy, is it?
— from
Look Ma, Life's Easy
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your
dreams come true.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You
can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
— Emily Dickinson
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
— Eric Hoffer
Quotes about Retirement and
Health
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you
like.
— Jackie Mason
The beginning of health is to know the disease.
— Spanish Proverb
If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness
lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health — you must use it or lose it!
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and
money.
— Helen Gurley Brown
A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.
— from The
Joy of Not Working
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must
investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his
physical constitution.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
People Enjoying
Retirement
I like retirement life. It's something to do when no one wants you to work anymore.
— Unknown wise person
I used to have dreams that I died at my desk. Now that I've retired, I don't have those
dreams anymore.
— Haselback (commenting on an online article about retirement.)
Retirement means that we can base important decisions on whims.
— Unknown Retiree on Online Article about Retirement
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of
trousers.
— Lester Piggott (b. 1935), British champion jockey (On his retirement)
I'm retired — I'm not dead!
— Unknown wise person
Retirement Quotes — Having a Retirement
Plan
Heaven, that’s my retirement
plan.
— Dwayne (Unknown last name) but Sam Smith's Father-in-Law
Planning not to retire is simply not a viable retirement strategy.
— Catherine Collinson, Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies
Welfare is not a retirement plan.
— from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
— Earl Nightingale
Denial is not a retirement plan
— Sydney Lagier
The Ideal Retirement Plan: "Marry an old rich broad and wait for her to die."
— Ivan Wilson (commenting on an online article about retirement.)
Waiting until your retirement party is too late to start planning your [retirement]
portfolio.
— Richard Wastcoat in the Telegraph
Retiring is easy. Creating happiness
in retirement, however — now that is the harder part of a successful
retirement!
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These
Retirement
Questions?
- Once you retire, what are you going to do about your
identity that is so dependent on work?
- How will you relate to your relatives
and friends who are still working while you are living the life of an aristocrat, sometimes known as "The
Life of Riley"?
- What will you do with your new-found leisure time if you
have never learned how to enjoy leisure activities?
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