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

Travel in Your Retirement Years

 

 

I've learned that the secret of growing old gracefully is never to
lose your enthusiasm for meeting new people and seeing new places.

— Unknown wise person

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

— Fanny Burney, English novelist

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
— Saint Augustine

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
— Leigh Hunt

Be the hero of your adventure. All travel is inner travel, because
wherever we are, we are processing our experiences internally. Remind yourself that you are the hero of all your journeys, and that all your travel in the outside world is really travel inward, toward ever higher spiritual consciousness.
— Joseph Dispenza (author of The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of Self-Discovery)

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change
that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
— Miriam Beard

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are
vaguer than yours.
— J. B. Priestley

Most people say that they are going to travel a lot when they retire. The only ones who do so are the ones who travel a lot before they retire.
— from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

The longer you travel to view an eclipse, the greater the chance of
cloud cover.
— Unknown wise person

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part
of frivolous ones.
— Anne Sophie Swetchine

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.
— G. K. Chesterton

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
— Hilaire Belloc