Retirement Quotes, Sayings about Retiring

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off - Abe Lemons.

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it - Abigail Charleson.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it - Bernard Baruch.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want - Bill Watterson.

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap - Bob Hope.

Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them - Brendan Francis.

No longer having to punch a time clock is my definition of retirement. That way I could do what I want — when I want — anytime I want - Brooky Brown.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income - Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice - Dianne Nahirny.

A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job - Ella Harris.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language - Ernest Hemingway.

Age and retirement appear 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.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking - Gail Sheehy.

Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home - forever” - Gene Perret.

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you - Gene Perret.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache.. unless you play golf - Gene Perret.

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

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it - Gene Perret.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It’s either that or buy a new golf ball - Gene Perret.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell - George Bernard Shaw.

Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left - George F. Burns.

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income - George Foreman.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it’s impossible. It keeps changing all the time - Greer Garson.

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.

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.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them - Louis Armstrong.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did - Malcolm Forbes.

There are so many other interesting ways to spend your time. I feel like early retirement is a gift, but it’s such an incredible gift. It’s a gift I need to use - Martha Felt-Bardon.

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire - Margaret Mead.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential - Mason Cooley.

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off - Mason Cooley.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth - Mason Cooley.

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.

I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps - Merri Brownworth.

Retire from work, but not from life - M.K. Soni.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job - Peter F. Drucker.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch - R.C. Sherriff.

Retired is being twice tired, I’ve thought, first tired of working, then tired of not - Richard Armour.

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.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working - Robert Half.

The way retirement is shaping up, how will one know for sure when he or she has retired? - Robin Fowler.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial - Seneca.

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.

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