Retirement Quotes and Retirement
Sayings
Retirement Quotes and Retirement
Sayings
to Help You
Retire Happy
This webpage of retirement sayings and
retirement quotations tries to cover it all: Mockery. Social
commentary. Paradox. Sarcasm. Wisdom. Nonsense. Ridicule.
Irony. Comedy. And Mostly Valuable insight.
Along with the retirement
humor and retirement
poems on this website, these inspirational and sometimes
funny retirement quotes and retirement sayings should add
spice to your conversations, remind you humorously of your
questionable existence, motivate you to greater
accomplishments, or just plainly lighten your day.
All told — you should encounter the best
things anybody ever said about retirement and give you many
reasons to retire early.
The joy of retirement is one of
rediscovery — new found time, new found freedom,
a new routine, and renewed appreciation of what
life is really about.
— A. Major
As far as I am concerned, people
who can't find ways to amuse themselves other
than going to work are to be pittied.
— Unknown retired person
If I'd
known that retirement was going to be this good I'd
have done it the day after I left school
!!!
— Mickey White (who
lives in the United Kingdom and wrote to
Ernie Zelinski about his
retirement book.)
Early retirement is the time to
pursue the dream and passion you've left in the
corner while you survived the kids,
marriage/divorce or going through the motions of
gaining material things.
— Mona Gallagher
I used to have dreams that
I died at my desk.
Now that I've retired, I don't have those dreams
anymore.
— Haselback (commenting on an online article about
retirment.)
I have retired, un retired, and retired again all
in the past 10 years.
— Unknown retiree
I find the biggest trouble with
having NOTHING to do is . . . you
can't tell when you are done.
— Unknown retired person
I
retired early for health reasons — my company
was sick of me and I was sick of them.
— Author unknown
I’m retired. You on the other hand
have to go to work.
— Unknown retiree
The
money’s no better in retirement but the hours
are!
— Unknown wise person
Retirement without the love of
letters is a living burial.
— Seneca
Retirement: When you quit working just before your
heart does.
— Anonymous person in retirement
“We’ll rock till we drop. We have
all agreed this won’t be the last time.
Everyone’s rocking."
— Ronnie Wood, (in July 2010 at age 63, in response
to rumors that the Rolling Stores were going to
retire. At the time, lead singer Mick
Jagger was 67, guitarist Keith Richards
was 66, and drummer Charlie Watts
was 69.)
I’m now as free as the breeze —
with roughly the same income.
— Anonymous retiree
A gold watch is the most
appropriate gift for retirement, as its
recipients have given up so many of their golden
hours in a lifetime of service.
— Harry Mahtar
You must pursue what you truly want
out of retirement, and not what others want you
to pursue or what other retirees are
pursuing.
— from
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
In retirement, every day is
Boss Day and every day is
Employee Appreciation Day.
— Unknown retired person
Retirement gives people the
opportunity to think about and reconnect with
themselves and their neglected dreams or the
forgotten pleasure of activities that bring
joy.
— Mona Gallagher
If you retire right the only thing
you will worry about is when to
eat and when to sleep.
— Unknown retiree
Retirement life begins when
the kids move out and the cat gets run
over.
— Unknown
Retiree
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(Review of
The World's Best Retirement
Book on November 8, 2008 in
the Financial Post)
To be sure, retirement
books are a glutted field, but most focus
on money and financial
planning.
They view the finish
line as the last day of
employment.
That’s where Ernie
Zelinski’s How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
begins.
— Jonathan Chevreau, retirement columnist with
the National
Post
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No
longer having to punch a time clock is my
definition of retirement. That way I could do
what I want — when I want — anytime I
want.
— Brooky Brown
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The
concept of freedom is never truly realized until
one settles into retirement mode.
— A. Major
Retirement is merely ending one
venture and beginning a new chapter of life.
— Retired unknown wise person
How
one takes care of her or his health before
retirement will determine health in
retirement.
— Bruce C. Appleby
The
worst days of those who enjoy what they do,
are better than the best days of those who
don't.
— E. James
Rohn
Retirement: A Time to Become Much
More than You Have Ever
Been
— from
How to Retire Happy, Wild and
Free
Over
125,00 Copies Sold and Published in 9
Languages
For a happy day, look for something
bright and beautiful in nature. Listen for a
beautiful sound, speak a kind word to some
person, and do something nice for someone
without their knowledge.
— Unknown 85-year-old Wise Retired Person
We've entered a new age of old age.
The possibility of experiencing positive, vital
aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is
one of the new realities of the 21st
century.
— James Firman, Ed.D., president and CEO of
NCOA
There are times like
this moment, when I sit up all night and paint or
write simply to catch up a bit on all of the
paintings I want to do and things I want to write
about.
— Unknown wise retired person
If
anyone loves my retirement more than I do, it's
probably the cats. They love having company all
day and someone who will sleep in with them.
— Unknown wise retiree
Retirement is like being out of
school for the summer but the summer never
ends.
— Wise retired person
Retirement is being able to go with
the flow of life a little more,
letting things happen naturally instead of always
trying to make things happen, knowing it's always
easier to ride a horse in the direction it's
going.
— from
How to Retire Happy, Wild and
Free (COPYRIGHT
© — Used with Special
Permission)
Funny Retirement Quotes and
Retirement
Sayings about
Aging
Don't waste too much time and energy
worrying about getting older. The point is that if you spend
a lot of time preparing for old age, old age will come a lot
sooner than you would like. Most centurians don't know why
they have lived so long and don't care.
For instance, in response to why she's lived
so long, 100—year-old Hazel Etherington of Lynchburg,
Virginia replied, "I'm not sure. I think maybe it's the
pacemaker."
Here are some retirement quotations about
age and aging to put retirement in proper perspective:
Am I
older than dirt? I knew dirt when it was still a
rock!
— Unknown wise person
Dying young is overrated.
— Unknown wise person
When
the majority of people get my age, once they
retire and get Social Security they lay on
the couch and do nothing. The next thing you
know, they're not with us any more.
— 77-year-old Retiree August
Gonsoulin
Retirees have two choices: choose the couch — or
choose life.
— Jane McBride
An inordinate
passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining
young.
— Oscar
Wilde
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the
transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Now that I'm older I thought it was
great that I seemed to have more patience. Turns
out I just don't give a shit.
— Unknown wise person
Serious Retirement
Quotes and Retirement Sayings
Retirement without the love of
letters is a living burial.
— Seneca
Retiring is easy. Staying retired —
now that's the trick!
— Richard Parker, Author of Retired &
Staying Retired; Enjoying the RV Lifestyle
First Law of Retirement:
Successful retirees change direction, not momentum.
Those that don't orbit the couch.
— from Retirement Rocket
Second Law of Retirement: For every
benefit fulfilled in the workplace, there must
be an equal or opposite benefit fulfilled in
retirement.
— from Retirement Rocket
Third Law of Retirement:
Partners entering retirement need to travel the
same orb.
— from Retirement Rocket
Rounds of golf and hands of bridge
do not a retirement make.
— from Retirement Rocket
We've entered a new age of old age.
The possibility of experiencing positive, vital
aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is
one of the new realities of the 21st
century.
— James Firman, Ed.D., President and CEO of
NCOA
Tip for prospective
retirees from the military: “Be
prepared; it’s difficult because, like I said,
the military is a way of life, a total mindset.
Civilian life is totally different. And it’s
going to take a while to readjust to civilian
life and a lot of people never do. Believe it or
not, a lot of the military guys die within the
first two years of retirement. It’s either
because of the stress, the unfamiliar stress of
civilian employment, the unfamiliar stress of
having to maintain a home with a lot less than
what they give you in the military.”
— Joe Dibble, at age 65, who
retired in Fort Bragg after 22 years in the
military
Zen masters tell us that we become
imprisoned by what we are most attached to: For
instance:
Cars;
Houses;
Money;
Friends and lovers;
Egos and identities.
Being happily retired is giving up your attachment
to these things and setting yourself free.
— from
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free (COPYRIGHT
© — Used with Special
Permission)
More Serious
and Funny Retirement Quotes
and Sayings at:
One week
into retirement, you'll be so damned
bored that you'll want to stick bicycle
spokes into your eyes. You'll probably
opt to look for another job or start
another company. Kinda defeats the
purpose of waiting [for retirement],
doesn't it.
— Timothy Ferris in The 4-Hour
Workweek
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