Retiring Quotes - Page 2

• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Retirement

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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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

  Retirement, Evening, Boxes

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

  James H. Douglas

  Retirement, Jobs, Home

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• Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

  Rick Warren

  Reality, Servant Of God, Careers

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• But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

  Derek Landy

  Retirement, Sleep, Cake

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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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• 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

  Retirement, Moving, Next Move

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

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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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• Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

  Jen Kirkman

  Retirement, Golf, College

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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

  Retirement, Years, Two

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

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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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

  Retirement, Games, Balls

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

  Anthony Trollope

  Retirement, Work, Parent

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

  Gregory Maguire

  Retirement, Despite, Happenings

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• Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

  Mason Cooley

  Retirement, Way, Insignificance

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• Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

  George Washington

  Retirement, Years, Weight

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.3

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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

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Crowns

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Mediocrity, Mediocre

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

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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