Funny Retirement Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Worry, Age

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• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Retirement, Age, Able

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

  Jilly Cooper

  Retirement, Coffee, Food

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• Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

  Gene Perret

  Inspirational, Retirement, Stress

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

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Nice

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• I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Income

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• Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

  Charles Baxter

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

  Lola J. May

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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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

  Retirement, People, Merit

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• The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

  Milton Berle

  Teacher, Retirement, Dollars

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• Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Burden, Retiring

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• There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Business, Aging

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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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

  Retirement, Party, Way

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• In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Country, Retirement, Long

  Diary entry, April 15, 1836.

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• A man can't retire his experience.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

  Stephen Hawking

  Retirement, Years, Thirty

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• Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Assessment

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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