Retirement Quotes

548 quotes by 436 authors

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those… — Richard Bach
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
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… — J. G. Ballard
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less… — Bernard Baruch
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone de Beauvoir
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. — Glenn Beck
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in… — Warren G. Bennis
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death. — Ezra Taft Benson
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. — Milton Berle
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you… — Drew Bledsoe
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security… — Carol Moseley Braun
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. — Helen Gurley Brown
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile… — Anthony Burgess
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. — Amos Bronson Alcott
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. — George Burns
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. — George Burns

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