quotations about retirement
Retirement is a field of clover, but by the time you reach it, you're too old to climb the fence.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Life begins at retirement.
ANONYMOUS
Early retirement is less for people who hate their jobs and more for those who have a clear idea of a different lifestyle or goal they may want to pursue.
KRISTIN WONG
"The Basics of FIRE (Financial Independence and Early Retirement)", Lifehacker Australia, November 16, 2017
The day of retirement have finally come
Get a gold watch and your work is done
One month later your heart give out
What was all that planning about?
SEASICK STEVE
"What a Way to Go"
The idea of retirement is alien to me. When it gives you great joy to do something--in my case, make music--why on earth would you stop?
BENNY ANDERSSON
"Abba's Benny Andersson says idea of retirement is alien to him", Belfast Telegraph, October 28, 2017
O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline --
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Deserted Village
The sign says, "families welcome"
At the Oaks Retirement Home
But mostly, no one comes 'cept on the weekends
Ruby Wilson lives in 303
Where she spends most her time
But it's almost noon on Sunday
And she's been sitting in the lobby since nine
She's all dressed up in her best hat and gloves
She's all dressed up
Watching and waiting, but nobody comes
Some days sure are lonely days
And time can move so slow
When you're all dressed up
With nowhere to go
REBA MCENTIRE
"All Dressed Up"
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
ELLA HARRIS
attributed, Say It With Style
Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
RICHIE NORTON
The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret
The man who looks forward to retirement when he can go fishing seven times a week, soon finds himself doing the dishes three times a day.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I remind clients that retirement is not a finite point in time, it's the beginning of a 25-plus year time horizon.
JANET KIDD STEWART
"If you are getting ready to retire, don't let stock market volatility panic you", VC Star, November 23, 2017
Retirement without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
What's the best age to retire? It's a question countless workers ask themselves every day. Pinpointing the right retirement age isn't easy, as each choice comes with its own consequences. Leave the workforce at 62, for example, and you'll slash your Social Security benefits should the need arise to claim them right away. But, you'll also get more years of payments, not to mention the ability to enjoy some downtime when you're younger and are apt to have more energy.
MAURIE BACKMAN
"3 Rules for Picking the Perfect Retirement Age", The Motley Fool, November 10, 2017
Retirement is not a static event, fixed in time with a gold watch to mark it. Rather retirement -- if that is even the right word -- is a multidirectional process that can take many years.
ALICE RADOSH
Women Confronting Retirement
When the evening of life is spent in retirement, consecrated and improved, a mild lustre usually gilds its close, and the memory of departed excellence is cherished by survivors with sentiments of profound veneration and high esteem.
D. FORBES
attributed, Day's Collacon
A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste the blessing.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose
There are some evils to which a life of retirement is exposed, the principal of which are idleness, humor, conceit, incivility, churlishness, and misanthropy.
E. G. BATES
The Young Gentleman's Book
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.
MERRI BROWNWORTH
attributed, Say It With Style