quotations about retirement
Accept the fact that you are retired. Don't spend all your time wishing the past would return; it won't. Accept instead that your life has entered a new stage, and ahead of you are new adventures.
BILLY GRAHAM
"The ABCs of your life after retirement", Bowling Green Daily News, November 25, 2017
Life begins at retirement.
ANONYMOUS
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
Reader's Digest, Volume 67, 1955
The days grow longer for smaller prizes
I feel a stranger to all surprises
You can have them I don't want them
I wear a different kind of garment
In my rehearsals for retirement
PHIL OCHS
"Rehearsals for Retirement"
There are some evils to which a life of retirement is exposed, the principal of which are idleness, humor, conceit, incivility, churlishness, and misanthropy.
E. G. BATES
The Young Gentleman's Book
O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline --
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Deserted Village
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
ELLA HARRIS
attributed, Say It With Style
The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!
ANONYMOUS
Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
RICHIE NORTON
The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret
Trying to get by it
So I won't have to quit
Don't wanna spend my nights
Working the dread yard shift
And I'm so sick and tired
Yeah I'm over head
I'm calling this an early retirement
HANDGUNS
"Early Retirement"
Retirement is a field of clover, but by the time you reach it, you're too old to climb the fence.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I won't take stock in a withered man
PANTERA
"Primal Concrete Sledge"
My retirement had now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst.
HANNAH MORE
attributed, Day's Collacon
You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot.
ANONYMOUS
When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.
ANONYMOUS
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
MAGGIE KUHN
Ms. Magazine, July 1973
The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
ANONYMOUS
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
ANONYMOUS
The first step is to make the decision to have a productive life after retirement and not just to settle into a traditional life of extended leisure.
JOHANN REDELINGHUYS
"Retirement is a change of pace, not end of the road", BDlive, February 10, 2016
Maybe the worst part of retirement is finding things to complain about. When you work, there is plenty. And working means there isn't time to do much around the house so there is that to complain about. But now I have only myself to blame when something goes wrong. I am my own boss and a pretty awful one at that.
WALLY SPIERS
"Retirement is easy. It's keeping everything straight that's difficult.", Belleville News-Democrat, November 4, 2017