Best Retirement Quotations
548 Retirement quotes by 421 unique authors
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I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
— Ehud Olmert
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As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not…
— John Doolittle
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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
— George Burns
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
— Willie Stargell
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At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of…
— George Washington
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The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps.…
— Michele Bachmann
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Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be…
— William Rehnquist
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There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a…
— Harry Reid
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Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private…
— Rand Paul
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The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.
— Patty Murray
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You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.…
— George Carlin
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell…
— Steve Buscemi
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It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were…
— Margot Kidder
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When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the…
— Erma Bombeck
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Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.
— Harold George Koenig
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Maggie Kuhn
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Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
— Mario Puzo
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I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
— Greer Garson
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I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
— Unknown Author
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Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
— Julia Cameron
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The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
— Charles Taylor Manatt
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God has a plan for your retirement.
— Billy Graham
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and…
— Stephen Leacock
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421 authors contributed a total of 548 Retirement Quotes, led by these top contributors: