Retirement Quotes · Page 21

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

— Colonel Sanders

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

— Gene Perret

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

— Henry Adams

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

— Seneca the Younger

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

— Keith Ellison

I haven't thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.

— Sania Mirza

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

— Paulo Coelho

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought…

— George Burns

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel…

— Graeme Le Saux

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I…

— Chris Christie

Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The…

— Jennifer Estep

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really…

— Ozzy Osbourne

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough…

— Timothy Ferriss

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that…

— Robert Kiyosaki

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part…

— Mark Zandi

Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will…

— Howard W. French

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.…

— B. C. Forbes

I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and…

— Clint Eastwood

After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only…

— LaVell Edwards

“I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to…

— Martha Sherrill

For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often…

— Tim Henman

It's Good...But No more rush hour driving To start and end your day No more early alarm calls But..much less pay No…

— John Walter Bratton

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

— Robert Breault

The day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

— Rajnath Singh

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

— Helen Hayes

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired,'

— Bill Murray

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

— Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

— Gail Sheehy

“For a woman, there is no such thing as retirement. She always enjoyed her role as wife, mother, and household manager.”

— Lynne Withey

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think…

— Richard Branson

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

— Earl Nightingale

What happens to most intelligent people is they retire after they turn 26 or 27. I don't have to deal with that problem.

— Dave Schultz

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

— Virginia Graham

It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm…

— Gordie Howe

You might be retired from your job, but not from your responsibilities until you would not die.

— Mak_786

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

— Gene Perret