Retiring Quotes - Page 4

• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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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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• When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

  R. C. Sherriff

  Retirement, Work, Age

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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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• Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

  Seneca the Younger

  Retirement, Letters, Burial

  "A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B Wilcox, p. 173, 1947.

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• Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Retirement, People, Merit

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Teacher, Retirement, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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• To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Long, Today

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes?". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Ends, Retired

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• Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

  Robert Breault

  Retirement

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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Retirement, Home, Feet

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.371, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rest In Peace, Children, Wife

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Retirement, Work, Differences

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• When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

  Carolina Herrera

  Thinking

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• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Retirement, Husband, Wife

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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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• There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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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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• There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Work, Age

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

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• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Retirement, Work, People

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• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  Margaret Mead

  Retirement, Sooner Or Later, Retired

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• 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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