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Retirement Quotes
Retirement Quotes IndexAbout Retirement
"Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it." "Retirement: World's longest coffee break." "Retired is being twice tired, I've thought "I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!" "Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice." "Life begins at retirement." "Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." "I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron." "In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day." "Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it." "Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working." "Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning." "Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing partof the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement." "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." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Aging"First you forget names; "Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did." "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind … it doesn’t matter." "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it." "To the unlearned, old age is winter; to the learned, spring." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Early Retirement"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working." "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." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes For Those Wishing to Retire"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." "I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career." "I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy." "The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Funny"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." "The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring." "The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off." "The money's no better in retirement but the hours are!" "The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income." "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." "I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day." "When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch." "Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did." "Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working." "As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.” “The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Gold Watch"A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Insightful"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did." "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it." "I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." "The concept of freedom is never truly realized until one settles into retirement mode." "Enjoy every retirement day as if it was your last and one day you will be right about it." "Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Inspirational"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." "In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day." "Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning." "There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it 'retirement', I call it bliss." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Irony of Retirement
"Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment." "When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch." "Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese." "The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money." "If you have the time, you won't have the money. If you have the money, you won't have the time." "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." "I work harder now that I have retired from corporate life, than when I actually worked, but I love it." "Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working." "Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Quotes by Famous People"When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and regretfully at the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." "When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income." "I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." "As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning." "Retirement is the ugliest word in the language." "Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." "Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left." "The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income." "There’s one thing I always wanted to do before I quit – retire!" "One of the best hearing aids a [retired] man can have is an attentive wife." "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them." "Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire." "The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement Activities – Fishing"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement Activities – Golfing"Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf." "Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun." "Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty." "Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness." "The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing." "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." "If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement Activities – Other"I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps." "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." "Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "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." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement Advice"When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to." "Retire from work, but not from life." "When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and regretfully at the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." "Planning to retire? Before you do find your hidden passion, do the thing that you have always wanted to do." "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." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement and Marriage"When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income." "A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job." "When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you." "When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking." "Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, 'Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.'" "One of the best hearing aids a [retired] man can have is an attentive wife." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Retirement Money Matters"Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese." "The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money." "I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income." "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." "If you have the time, you won't have the money. If you have the money, you won't have the time." "Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes When to Retire"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income." "The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does." "Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Why People Retire"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring." Return to Index of Retirement Quotes Return to Celebration Quotes - from Retirement Quotes
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