Retirement Quotes

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Silver surfers ... nah, that's old hat. Retire a gold surfer with Cosmic Ordering.

~ Stephen Richards

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

~ Donna Tartt

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age, it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

~ Yasunari Kawabata

(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.

~ Bruce Frankel

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

~ Albert Camus

Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

~ Gregory Maguire

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.

~ Martha Sherrill

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he replied. “Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?” “When we got married we agreed on an arrangement”, he said. “I would earn the living, and she would make the living worthwhile”.“Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?

~ Kelly Crawford

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

~ Dave Ramsey

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job, the retired pray for grandchildren.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me, my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.

~ Wilkie Collins

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late....

~ Agatha Christie

You wouldn’t get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?

~ Koos Kruger

This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book.

~ William Shakespeare

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

~ Derek Landy

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

~ Morton Shaevitz

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle, or live either by flattery or by contriving the arts of vain pleasure, and, on the other hand, takes no care of those of a meaner sort, such as ploughmen, colliers, and smiths, without whom it could not subsist? But after the public has reaped all the advantage of their service, and they come to be oppressed with age, sickness, and want, all their labours and the good they have done is forgotten, and all the recompense given them is that they are left to die in great misery.

~ Thomas More

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

~ Gyan Nagpal

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana