Retirement Quotes - Page 10

• That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Solitude, Desert, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.135

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• We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Commitment, America, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Flower, Rose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.81

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• I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

  Andy Rooney

  Florida, Looks, Want

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• Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

  Howard W. French

  Baby, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.

  George Mason

  Country, Anxiety, Littles

  Letter to his son, George Mason, January 8, 1783.

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• If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

  Brian O'Driscoll

  Thinking, Six Months, Ifs

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• He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, World, Want

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don't worry. It's going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don't worry, it's going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it's a real big question as to whether or not the system's going to be there.

  Karl Rove

  Children, Real, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Night, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.35

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• The fall of waters and the song of birds,
  And hills that echo to the distant berds,
  Are luxuries excelling all the glare
  The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.

  William Cowper

  Song, Fall, Echoes

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Thinking, Long

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagine, Monotony, Tedious

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Loss, Solitude, Feelings

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.

  Paula Scher

  Ideas, Seems

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• Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Looks, May, Chance

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.79

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• My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

  Hannah More

  Believe, Character, Eye

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Reflection, Compassion

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.139

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• The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Female, Growing, Plant

  Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

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• Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

  Ruth Gordon

  Long, People, Lovely

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dew, Shade, Modesty

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• Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

  Lee Johnson

  Successful, Identity, Lifestyle

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• My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.

  Michelle Gielan

  Morning, Jobs, Home

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

  Simon Hoggart

  Jobs, Mean, Filling Up

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Prayer, Blessed, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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