Retirement Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

  Mason Cooley

  Return, Youth, Invention

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• You can't put off being young until you retire.

  Philip Larkin

  Young, Retiring

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.136, Faber & Faber

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• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Teaching, Want

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• When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Differences, Retiring

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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, Dollars, Shy

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• Sanders was a friend of chickens.

  Charles Taylor Manatt

  Funny Retirement, Chickens

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• The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Roles, Retired, Persons

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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

  Party, Way, Republican

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• I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Inspirational, Soldier, Painter

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• Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

  Charles Baxter

  Teacher, Work, Proud

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• A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

  Ron Chernow

  Plans

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Age, Ears, Faces

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Moving, Next Move, Mediocre

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Giving, Honor

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

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• Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

  Lester Piggott

  Games, Balls, May

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• I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Light, Feels, Feathers

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• I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

  Andre Agassi

  Caring, Wake Up, Tomorrow

  "Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. September 4, 2006.

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Golf, Weekend, Games

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• Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

  Alex Comfort

  Two, Week, Length

  Alex Comfort (1978). “A Good Age”, Simon & Schuster

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• When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Evening, Boxes, Fireplaces

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Feet, People, Age

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• Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Years, Two, Lord

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1934) (3 April 1773)

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• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Work, People, Age

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• Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Worry, People, Looks

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