Retirement Quotes:

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

topic: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Retirement, Lessons, Leisure, Penetration

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Book

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

topic: Retirement, Moving, Next, Next Move

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

- Alex Comfort

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

topic: Retirement, Two, Week

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Real, Practise

Modesty and dew love the shade.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Retirement, Dew, Shade

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

topic: Retirement, Spring, Believe, Hibernation, Seclusion

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Retirement, Women, Judging

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

- Andre Agassi

topic: Retirement, Caring, Wake Up

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Money Isn't Everything

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

topic: Retirement, Golf, Carbs, Fried Food

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

topic: Retirement, Florida, Looks

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Heart, Lodges, Retired Teacher

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Christmas, Retirement, People

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

topic: Retirement, Princess, Years, Public Life

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

source: Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

topic: Wise, Lonely, Retirement, Wise Sayings

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

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

topic: Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Death, Retirement, Philosophical, Jesus Resurrection, Parting

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

- Ava Gardner

topic: Retirement, Honey

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

topic: Retirement, Business, Age, Challenges In Business, Retirement Age

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

topic: Inspirational, Family, Retirement, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

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

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Pieces, Brokers, Stock Broker

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

topic: Retirement, Pay, Mortgage

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

- Barbara Mikulski

topic: Senior, Retirement, Political, Political Promises

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

topic: Senior, Retirement, Sick, Political Promises

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

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Goal

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

- Ben Stiller

topic: Retirement

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Numbers, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

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

topic: Country, Baby, Retirement, Two Jobs

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

- Bette Davis

topic: Sexy, Retirement, Funny Inspirational, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

- Betty White

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Vocabulary

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

topic: Retirement, Dirty, Asking, Dirty Words

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

source: Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

topic: Senior, Retirement, Powerful, Bankruptcy, Savings Accounts

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

- Bill Frist

topic: Retirement, Growth, Saving, Savings Accounts

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

topic: Senior, Retirement, Believe, Fiscal Responsibility

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

- Bob Arum

topic: Funny, Retirement, Long

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Sports, Teacher, Retirement

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

- Bono

topic: Art, Retirement, Mastery

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

topic: Football, Retirement, Team

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

- Brett Favre

topic: Retirement, Careers, Needs

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

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Children

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

- Carol Vorderman

topic: Retirement, Home, Stories, Retirement Homes

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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

topic: Retirement, Careers, Trying

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

- Catherine Crook de Camp

topic: Retirement, Money, Saving

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Math, Practical Experience, Effective Teacher

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

topic: Retirement, People, Risk, Widows And Orphans

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Retirement, America

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

- Charles Baxter

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Work, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

topic: Retirement, Regret, Sight

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

topic: Retirement, Mean, Successful, Social Institutions, Walden Pond

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

topic: Retirement, School, Trying, Carolina, Social Work

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

topic: Retirement, Garden, Gestures

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

- Charles Taylor Manatt

topic: Retirement, Party, Way, Colonels, Funny Retirement

Sanders was a friend of chickens.

- Charles Taylor Manatt

topic: Retirement, Funny Retirement, Chickens

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

- Chipper Jones

source: Twitter post from Mar 11, 2013

topic: Retirement, Happy Life, Golfers

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

topic: Retirement, Years, Careers, Health Benefits

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

topic: Goodbye, Retirement, Hero, That Guy, Haha

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

topic: Retirement, Rights, Decision, Vote For Me, Workers Rights

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

topic: Retirement, Needs, Looks

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

topic: Retirement, Children, War, Fiscal Policy, Quality Education

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

topic: Retirement, Long, Doe, Calculating

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

source: "The Roadmap for Republicans Is a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

topic: Retirement, Hard Work, Promise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

topic: Retirement, Elderly, Racism, Ageism, Security Systems

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

topic: Retirement, Long, Generations, Beneficiaries, Future Generation

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

topic: Retirement, Age, Stories, Learning Something New

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

topic: Retirement, Real, Believe, Overexposure

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Retirement, Wine, Red, Red Wine, Truffles

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

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

I've enjoyed my retirement.

- Darrell Royal

topic: Retirement

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

- David Blanchflower

source: "The Secret to a Happier Retirement: Friends, Neighbors and a Fixed Annuity". online.wsj.com. July 27, 2005.

topic: Time, Retirement, Should, Happier Times

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

topic: Retirement, Self, Denial, Self-denial

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

- David Gill

topic: Retirement, Issues, Rolling

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

source: “Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United manager after 27 years” by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

topic: Retirement, Squad, One Day

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

topic: Depressing, Retirement, Real

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

topic: Retirement, Taken, Eye

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

topic: Country, Baby, Retirement, Baby Boomer, Retirement Years

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

topic: Retirement, Reading, Florida

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

- Davy Jones

topic: Retirement, Getting Older, Used

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

topic: Retirement, Greatness, Fundamentals

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

topic: Retirement, America, Foundation, Economic Stability

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

topic: Retirement, Believe, Goal

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Retirement, Children, Responsibility, Happy Children, Indian Independence Day

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

topic: Retirement, Mean, Sunset

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

topic: Retirement, Couple, Doe, Married Couples

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

topic: Retirement, Fun, Mean

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

topic: Retirement, Fun, Careers, Keep Busy

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Retirement, Retired, Stills, Announcing

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

topic: Retirement, Home, Life Is

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

topic: Sports, Retirement, Motivation, Individual Success

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

source: Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

topic: Retirement, Growing, Female, Columbine

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

topic: Life, Retirement, Genius

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

topic: Retirement, Moving, Character, South Florida, Offbeat

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

topic: Retirement, Passion, Golf, Rocking Chairs

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

topic: Retirement, Government, Goal, Personal Goal, Financial Security

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Education, Teacher, Retirement

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Retirement, Golf, Games

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

topic: Death, Retirement, Prayer, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

- Eda LeShan

topic: Retirement, Attitude, Grandparent, Parents And Grandparents

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

topic: Retirement, Philosophy, Greatness, Grove

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

topic: Retirement, Party, History, Alexandria

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement

- Edward Heath

source: "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

topic: Retirement, Vat, Firsts

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

- Ehud Olmert

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Ramifications

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

- Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

source: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1972). “Acts and monuments”

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Mean

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,

- Elaine Chao

topic: Retirement, Profit, Lost, Enron

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Teacher, Retirement, School

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

- Elizabeth Janeway

topic: Retirement, Morning, Thinking, Waking Up In The Morning

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

- Erasmus Darwin

topic: Retirement, Dangerous, Drunkenness

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

- Eric Ripert

topic: Retirement, Kids, Responsibility

When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Mother, Retirement, Children, Supervisors, Empty Nest

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Retirement, Burden, Retiring, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

To fear retirement is to fear life.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Retirement

Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been

- Ernie J Zelinski

source: "How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free". Book by Ernie J Zelinski, www.today.com. 2004.

topic: Retirement, Farewell

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Teacher, Retirement

Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!

- Esther Hicks

topic: Retirement, Jobs, House, It Gets Better

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

- Evel Knievel

topic: Retirement, Who I Am, Feet, Ex Wife

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

- Fawn M. Brodie

source: Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Wall, Diversion, Housework

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

topic: Retirement, Pay, Quiet, Insufficiency

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.

- Francis Chan

topic: Retirement, Believe, People

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Retirement, Looks, May

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

- Gabriela Sabatini

topic: Retirement, Years, Feels

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

- Garth Brooks

topic: Retirement, People, Leaving

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

- Geoffrey Fisher

topic: Retirement, Book, Writing, Infirmity

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

- George Burns

topic: Hilarious, Retirement, Ties, Stoops, Funny Retirement

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

- George Foreman

topic: Retirement, Pay, Lord

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

- George Foreman

topic: Retirement, Thinking, World

Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

- George Karl

topic: Retirement, Children, Skills, Financial Literacy

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

- George Mason

topic: Retirement, Children, Comfort

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.

- George Mason

topic: Country, Retirement, Anxiety

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

- George Washington

topic: Retirement, Heart, Humble, Domestic Life, Searchers

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

- Gerald Jampolsky

source: Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Judging, Reminding

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Retirement, Long, Challenges, Security Systems

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Retirement, Opportunity, Years, Retirement Years

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Retirement, Years, Poverty, Retirement Years

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

- Grace Napolitano

topic: Retirement, Benefits, Half

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

- Grace Napolitano

topic: Retirement, Income, Roles

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

- Grace Slick

topic: Retirement, Reading, Two, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.

- Grant Cardone

topic: Retirement, Work Out, Wake Up, Things Work Out

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

- Greer Garson

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Retirement, Wish, Age

I'm happy in retirement.

- Greg Rusedski

source: "'I'm not coming back ever. You can quote me'". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

topic: Retirement

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

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Retirement

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

- Gresham Barrett

topic: Retirement, Eggs, Nests

I have made enough faces.

- Greta Garbo

topic: Retirement, Faces, Enough

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Teacher, Jesus, Retirement, Kingdom Of Heaven, Human Thought

My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

- Hannah More

topic: Retirement, Believe, Heart

Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

- Harold George Koenig

topic: Spiritual, Retirement, Vision

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

source: "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

topic: Life, Retirement, Business, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.

- Harry Reid

topic: Retirement, Cutting, Benefits

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Teacher, Retirement, Sermon On The Mount

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

- Helen Gurley Brown

topic: Birthday, Retirement, Money

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

- Helen Hayes

topic: Retirement, People, Age, Retirement Age, Retirement Farewell

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

- Helen Keller

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Self, Blind People, Blind Person

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

- Henry Adams

topic: Education, Teacher, Retirement

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

- Henry L. Stimson

topic: Country, Retirement, Army

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

topic: Retirement, Cheer, Character, Daguerreotypes

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

- Herb Kohl

topic: Senior, Retirement, Real

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

- Herman Cain

topic: Birthday, Senior, Retirement, Restructure, Retirement Age

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

- Horace

topic: Retirement, Struggle, Limits

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

- Howard Dean

topic: Retirement, Age, Favors

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

- Howard Dean

topic: Retirement, Moving, Cutting, Retirement Age

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

- Howard Nemerov

source: Howard Nemerov (1993). “A Howard Nemerov Reader”, p.307, University of Missouri Press

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Say Anything

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Retirement, Looking Forward, Exciting, Future Is Bright

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Firsts

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

- Iain Duncan Smith

source: "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

topic: Retirement, Hard Work, People, Quality Of Life, Pension

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

- Ian Anderson

topic: Retirement, Dark, Getting Older, Dark Thoughts

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Age

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

- Jacob Hacker

source: "Online Extra: The Free Market's "Softer Side"". Interview with Lee Walczak, www.bloomberg.com. March 17, 2005.

topic: Retirement, Believe, Hard Work

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

- Jahangir Khan

topic: Retirement, Support, Pakistan, Academy

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

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Mean, Happy Independence Day India

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

- Jan Karon

source: "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

topic: Retirement, Writing, Thinking

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

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

topic: Retirement, Character, Challenges

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

- Javier Perez de Cuellar

topic: Retirement, Light, Feels

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.

- Jean Alesi

topic: Retirement, Guy, Achieve

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

- Jean Giraudoux

topic: Death, Retirement, Next Steps, Pension

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

topic: Retirement, People, Worry

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

- Jeff Bingaman

topic: Retirement, Looks, Saving

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

- Jeff Foxworthy

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Work, Pickup Trucks, Pickups

Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.

- Jennifer Estep

topic: Retirement, People, Assassins

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

- Jerry Doyle

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

topic: Retirement, Believe, Financial

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Retirement, Pathetic

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.

- Jerry Rice

topic: Football, Retirement, Fun, Busier

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Funny, Retirement, Native American, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Retirement, Income, Care, Multiplying, Dependency

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

- Jimmy Breslin

source: Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

topic: Retirement, Wall, Glasses

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

- Joan of Arc

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Mind

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

- Jodi Rell

topic: Retirement, Vacation, Years, Easy Way, Vacation Time

The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

- Joe Heck

source: "Joe Heck: Social Security 'a pyramid scheme'". Interview with David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Pyramid Schemes, Retirement Age

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

topic: Retirement, Sight, Important

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

- John Anthony West

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Wishes

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

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Space

When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

- John Donne

source: 'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

topic: Retirement, Farewell, Lasts

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

- John Doolittle

topic: Country, Retirement, Order, President Roosevelt, Savings Accounts

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?

- John Doolittle

topic: Retirement, Giving, Choices

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

- John Lennon

topic: Retirement, Responsibility, Glimpse

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

- John Milton

topic: Retirement, Ease, Noise

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

- John Milton

topic: Summer, Retirement, Plato, Plato S, Attics

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

- John Noble

source: "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Ideas