Retirement Quotes · Page 17

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

— Mason Cooley

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

— Lord Chesterfield

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

— Colonel Sanders

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

— Betty White

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

— Carolina Herrera

I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that.

— Michael Phelps

“Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.”

— Richie Norton

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

— Jan Schakowsky

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably…

— Gary Johnson

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way.…

— Prince Fielder

My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.

— Stephanie Land

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that…

— Megan Mullally

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

— Evelyn Waugh

When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don't want to go down that road. As long as…

— John Virgo

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars,…

— Kurt Cobain

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought…

— Mika Hakkinen

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The…

— George Washington

In America, we make a promise to seniors: After a lifetime of working and contributing to this country, you'll earn the benefit…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people -…

— Chris Van Hollen

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me…

— Lilly Ledbetter

My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund.…

— Michelle Singletary

“Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no…

— Paulo Coelho

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly…

— Scott Rigell

“While Europe appears to maintain more reticence embracing it, in America there is no question that work can only be discussed as…

— J. Phillip Johnson

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

— Elbert Hubbard

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 think one of the worst things to ever happen to American man is that he was told he was going to…

— Lorne Greene

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

— Anonymous

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

— Anonymous

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

— Steve Israel

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

— Seneca the Younger

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

— Elizabeth Janeway

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

— Tommy Chong

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

— Graham Norton

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

— Ernie J Zelinski

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.

— David Letterman

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Why was I considering retirement at the age of just 25? Because I really wasn't having fun on court.

— Kiki Bertens

I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.

— Erika Jayne