Funny retirement Quotes

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

— A. A. Milne

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

— Julia Cameron

We have to thank God for this retirement.

— Virgil

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

— Mos Def

Sanders was a friend of chickens.

— Charles Taylor Manatt

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire!

— Groucho Marx

A man can't retire his experience.

— Bernard Baruch

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

— Gene Perret

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

— Joan Rivers

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

— Thierry Henry

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

— Peter Drucker

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in…

— Sylvester Stallone

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

— John Sharp Williams

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I…

— Voltaire

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis…

— Richard Davies

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires…

— Jeffrey Kluger

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it…

— Evelyn Waugh

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or…

— John Paul Stevens

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I…

— Al Pacino

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of…

— Betty White

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I…

— Alan Jackson

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which…

— Douglas Adams

but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both…

— Anonymous

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and…

— Jeremy Taylor

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is…

— Julie Walters

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

— Gene Perret

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

— Mario Puzo

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

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a…

— Gene Perret

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

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Gene Perret

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

— Jimmy Breslin

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

— Virginia Graham

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully…

— Jonathan Clements

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us.…

— Ann Landers