The Retirement Quotes Café

A Comprehensive Collection of Retirement Quotes, Retirement Jokes, Retirement Speeches, Retirement Letters, Retirement Gifts, and Retirement Poems
Selections by Ernie J. Zelinski
Author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
 

 

Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings

Importance of Money in Retirement

 

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
— Jackie Mason

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
— Oscar Wilde

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
— Charles Lamb

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
— H. L. Mencken

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
— Edmund Wilson

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married.
— from Wall Street Journal

If you don't want to work [in retirement] you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
— Ogden Nash

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
— Sophie Tucker

I don't like money, but it quiets my nerves.
— Joe Louis

Money makes the world go around — that and other stupid clichés.
— Unknown wise person

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
— Mary Quant

There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.
— Cicero

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
— Oscar Wilde

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
— Groucho Marx

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
— Hebrew Bible. Ecclesiastes 10:19

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He doesn't have any.
— Ed Howe

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
— Coco Chanel

When you retire, your house is your home. Don't look at it as an investment. You can convert it if you need to, but if you're retiring because of the equity in your house, you better get back to work.
— Robert Doyle (CPA with Spoor, Doyle & Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla)

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.
— Unknown wise person

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

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
— Tennessee Williams

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my
retirement.
— Thomas Jefferson

The key to a happy retirement is to have enough money to live on, but not enough to worry about.
— Unknown wise person

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
— Aphra Behn

That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Good-bye."
— Richard Armour

Where there is money, there is fighting.
— Marian Anderson

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
— Henry Fielding

 

 


 

 

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Cocaine is God's way of telling you you have too much money.
— Robin Williams

You can never truly receive money as a gift.
— Michael Phillips

 

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To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first. Best handle it very carefully, sir, very slowly while you puzzle what it's for.
— Richard Bach

We have a balance of $0.32 in the bank — Which makes us four-and-a-half
trillion dollars richer than the federal government.
— Jim Borgman