Retirement Wishes Quotes

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

Death, Senior, Retirement

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

Sylvia Plath

Inspirational, Sad, Women

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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

Will Rogers

Funny, Life, Wisdom

Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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

Gail Sheehy

Funny, Witty, Teacher

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Tennessee Williams

Funny, Life, Motivational

Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Laurence J. Peter

Retirement, Fun, Age

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A man can't retire his experience.

Bernard Baruch

Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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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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You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Joan Rivers

Retirement, Fun, Aging

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

Doug Larson

Funny, Witty, Retirement

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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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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Richard Armour

Teacher, Retirement, Tired

Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Bernard Baruch

Teacher, Retirement, Numbers

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

George Burns

Funny, Teacher, Witty

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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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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life, Retirement, Business

"Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

Gene Perret

Retirement, Home, Forever

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

Gene Perret

Success, Retirement, Age

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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Charles Kuralt

Teacher, Retirement, Literature

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

Abe Lemons

Retirement, Days Off, Trouble

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

Jim Bishop

Funny, Retirement, Native American

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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

Teacher, Retirement, Golf

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When one door closes, another one opens.

Alexander Graham Bell

Tattoo, Retirement, Doors

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In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Mason Cooley

Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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