Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Ernest Hemingway

Retirement: World’s longest coffee break.
Anonymous

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
Anonymous

Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home – forever.”
Anonymous

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
Anonymous

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Anonymous

Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked.
Anonymous

Retirement is when the living is easy and the payments are hard.
Anonymous

I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!
Anonymous

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Anonymous

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

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.
Anonymous

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
Anonymous

When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret

To retire is to begin to die.
Anonymous

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons

I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension.
Anonymous

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Anonymous

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

Old soldiers never die, they merely fade away.
Anonymous

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
Danny McGoorty

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Robert Half

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

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
George Foreman

A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.
Ella Harris

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.

I’m now as free as the breeze – with roughly the same income.
Gene Perret

I work harder now that I have retired from corporate life,
than when I actually worked, but I love it.
Catherine Pulsifer

When you see some people work you wonder what they’ll do in retirement.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm Forbes

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

I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps.
Merri Brownworth

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

Retire from work, but not from life.
M.K. Soni

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

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

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty five I still had pimples.
George Burns

He who laughs last at the boss’s jokes probably isn’t far from retirement.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Asquith

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
Charles de Saint-Evremond

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it.
Bernard Baruch

Retirement, a time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where you want to do it, and, how you want to do it.
Catherine Pulsifer

Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working.
Anonymous

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
Abigail Charleson

Retirement: World’s longest coffee break.
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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
Anonymous

I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.
Hartman Jule

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.
Harry Mahtar

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Gene Perret

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
J. Lubbock

Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.
Catherine Pulsifer

Life begins at retirement.
Anonymous

Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.
W. Gifford-Jones M.D.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.
Mason Cooley

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
Seneca

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson

Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
Anonymous

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing.
Phyllis Diller

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’m now as free as the breeze – with roughly the same income.
Anonymous

Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
Douglas Pagels

A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell ‘em to get a life.
Anonymous

Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does
Anonymous

Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them.
Brendan Francis

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf.
Gene Perret

While some people can’t wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all..
Catherine Pulsifer

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
Sylvia Plath

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you’re still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.
Anonymous

Tire but never retire.
M. K. Soni

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Anonymous

Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home – forever.
Gene Perret

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
Jonathan Clements

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
Branch Rickey

The money’s no better in retirement but the hours are!
Anonymous

Retired is being tired twice, I’ve thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Anonymous

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

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

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson

To retire is to die.
Pablo Casals

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson

Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left.
George F. Burns

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
Dean Martin

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
Anonymous

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

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

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It’s either that or buy a new golf ball.
Gene Perret

A short retirement urges a sweet return.
John Milton

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
G. K. Chesterton

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
Margaret Mead