Retirement Quotes

Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid.

~ Ben Mitchell

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

~ Cynthia Ozick

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

~ John Charles Pollock

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

~ Richard Sapir

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.

~ Anita Brookner

Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy 'active retirement' in the country club atmosphere' of this 'fashionable address'. Interested ghosts were to write to the 'Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland,' and were told,'Do not apply in person.

~ Leslie Le Mon

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

~ Kathy Gottberg

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.

~ H. L. Mencken

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

~ Scott Elledge

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

The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.

~ George Foreman

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

~ Laurence J. Peter

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

~ Brian Morgan

Retirement: Twice as much husband half as much pay.

~ Anonymous

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

~ Victoria Billings

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

~ Burt Reynolds

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.

~ Anonymous

Since our boss will be retiring soon it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.

~ Anonymous

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

~ Lady Nancy Astor

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

~ Pete Sessions

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

~ John Gregory Dunne

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

~ Annie Lennox

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

~ George Burns

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

~ Dwight L. Moody

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

~ Ron Lewis

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

~ Helen Hayes

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

~ J. G. Ballard

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

~ Walt Mossberg

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

~ David Brainerd

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

~ Abigail Adams

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

~ Kay Bailey Hutchison

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

~ Paul Ryan

The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

~ Cat Osterman

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

~ Justin Trudeau

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

~ Ron Lewis

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

~ Ben Bernanke

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

~ Elaine Chao