Retirement Quotes
Starting my favorite collection of retirement quotes with this funny quote by
Groucho Marx
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
~ Seneca
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind … it doesn’t matter”
~Mark Twain
“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
~Harry Vardon
“For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.”
~John Sharp Williams
“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”
~Gene Perret
“Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.”
~Catherine Pulsifer
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.”
~Bob Hope
“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Welfare is not a retirement plan”
~ Unknown
O, blest retirement! friend to life’s decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Oliver Goldsmith
“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”
~ Robert Half
“Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, “Hi, Honey, I’m home - forever.” ~Gene Perret
“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
“I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.”
~Douglas MacArthur
“Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ”
~Malcolm Forbes