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

Quotations and Wisdom about Where to Retire

 

 

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and it was the law.
— Jerry Seinfeld

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
— Jerome K. Jerome

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
— Sydney Smith

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
— Charles Dickens

He makes his home where the living is best.
— Latin proverb

Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.
— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness

Go and live somewhere else [in your retirement]. Try doing what you think you’ve always wanted to do.
— John Osborne, Retirement Seminar Presenter

Home — that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
— Lydia M. Child

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

— Samuel Johnson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
— Helen Rowland

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
—Charles Dickens

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
— Norman Douglas

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
— Miguel de Cervantes

 

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it — can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
— Marguerite Duras

I suppose I passed it a hundred times,
But I always stop for a minute.
And look at the house, the tragic house,
The house with nobody in it.
— Joyce Kilmer

 

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