Retirement Quotes - Page 17

• In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

  Robert Fogel

  Jobs, Average, Long

  "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2006.

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• Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Education, Running, School

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• Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Death, Animal

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• The main problem of America is that you're seeing people working all over this country two jobs, they're working three jobs, and they're getting nowhere in a hurry. They're working hard. They can't afford to send their kids to college in many instances. They can't afford child care for their little babies. They're worried to death about retirement.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Baby, Jobs

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• I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

  David Krumholtz

  Home, Talking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• John McCain is falling down on the job. He has gotten weak. He has gotten old. I do want to wish him a happy birthday. He is going to be 80 on Monday and I want to give him the best birthday present ever, the gift of retirement.

  Kelli Ward

  Monday, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Animal, Two

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Philosophy, Backyards, Philosopher

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

  Diane Keaton

  Sunset, Mean, Play

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Winning, Thinking, Race

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• Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Fall, Choices, Finding Yourself

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• [Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

  Patrick Leahy

  Justice, Six Months, Fuel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Saving, Gone

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• Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, Greatness, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1005, e-artnow

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• I just don't like people taking debt into retirement.

  Michelle Singletary

  People, Debt

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Cheer, Character, Humanity

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• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

  Chris Matthews

  Needs, Looks, Able

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Conversation

  Source: www.nola.com

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• Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.

  Milagros Cabral

  Dream, Athlete

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• Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  America, Space, People

  "Why We Should Keep Flying the Space Shuttle" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Solitude, Mind, Age

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.22

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• Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
  This unfrequented place to find some ease.

  John Milton

  Ease, Noise, Retiring

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.172

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• I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Beautiful, Reading, Book

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• I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

  Nick Nolte

  Should, Rough, Retired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

  Charlie Daniels

  Vocabulary, Right Now

  Source: www.cbn.com

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