Retirement famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
-- Abe Lemons -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-- Abigail Adams -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
-- Alex Comfort -
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
-- Allan Bloom -
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.
-- Andre Agassi -
Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
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 -
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 -
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
-- Anne Michaels -
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
-- Annie Lennox -
The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
-- Anthony Holden -
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
-- Arthur Helps -
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 -
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
-- B. C. Forbes -
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
-- Barack Obama -
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
-- Barbara Boxer -
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
-- Ben Stiller -
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
-- Bernard Baruch -
The main problem of America is that you're seeing people working all over this country two jobs, they're working three jobs, and they're getting nowhere in a hurry. They're working hard. They can't afford to send their kids to college in many instances. They can't afford child care for their little babies. They're worried to death about retirement.
-- Bernie Sanders -
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
-- Bette Davis -
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
-- Betty White -
Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
-- Betty White -
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
-- Bill Frist -
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
-- Bill Frist -
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
-- Blanche Lincoln -
Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
-- Bob Arum -
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
-- Bobby Knight -
There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
-- Bono -
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
-- Brett Favre -
I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.
-- Brett Favre -
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
-- Carol Moseley Braun -
For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
-- Carol Vorderman -
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.
-- Cat Osterman -
[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.
-- Catherine Crook de Camp -
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
-- Chaka Fattah -
I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
-- Charles Barkley -
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
-- Charles Baxter -
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond -
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
-- Charles Kuralt -
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
-- Charles Lamb -
The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
-- Charles Taylor Manatt -
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
-- Chipper Jones -
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
-- Chris Christie -
Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.
-- Chris Hogan -
Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'
-- Chris Jericho -
This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.
-- Chris Larson -
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 -
As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
-- Chris Van Hollen -
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
-- Claude Pepper -
Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.
-- Cliff Stearns -
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I would love to do both but I think I believe there's a thing as overexposure and I think people will get sick of me real quick. I kind of basically looked at it as my retirement plan now. That's definitely something I can do when I'm not wrestling anymore. And believe it or not - this sounds horrible - but it was really easy for me. I would really love to do both. I'd love to wrestle and do commentary, I think that would be awesome.
-- CM Punk -
I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
-- Craig Kilborn -
When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.
-- Dan Ariely -
Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.
-- David Blanchflower -
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
-- David Brainerd -
The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.
-- David Gill -
We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad
-- David Gill -
The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.
-- David I. Rozenberg -
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.
-- David Platt -
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
-- David Rubenstein -
I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
-- Davy Jones -
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
-- Davy Jones -
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
-- Denis Waitley -
Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.
-- Diane Keaton -
Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
-- Diane Watson -
I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
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 -
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
-- Douglas Adams -
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.
-- Douglas Preston -
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
-- Drew Carey -
Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
-- Duke of Wellington -
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
