Retirement Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Character, Challenges, Remember

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.842, Simon and Schuster

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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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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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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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• The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

  Audrey Sutherland

  Jobs, Real, Fire

  Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Party, History, Catholic

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Saving, Gone

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• Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Able, Used

  "Why Cutting Social Security Benefits Is Such a Big Deal" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

  Sander Levin

  Three, Saving, Social

  "Social Security at 75: Don’t Mess With Success" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• 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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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Teaching, Profound

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.8, Basic Books

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• I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.

  Andy Roddick

  Golf, Results, Mets

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• I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

  Mitt Romney

  Senior, Running, Jobs

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• All I want to do is model. The reason I'm coming back is for the same reasons that I became a model initially. It's about the clothes and the creation of great pictures. I thought I was old and that I earned my retirement, and enough! It's not enough. I want more. And I'm lucky that I still have that option.

  Linda Evangelista

  Clothes, Lucky, Want

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• What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

  John Anthony West

  Jobs, Space, Use

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