quotations about retirement
Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.
RICHARD CARLSON
The Don't Sweat Guide to Retirement
Without literature, friendship, and religion, retirement is a blank.
BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The Deserted Village
It is well to retire from this world, to reflect on another.
CHARLES V OF GERMANY
attributed, Day's Collacon
The day of retirement have finally come
Get a gold watch and your work is done
One month later your heart give out
What was all that planning about?
SEASICK STEVE
"What a Way to Go"
I remind clients that retirement is not a finite point in time, it's the beginning of a 25-plus year time horizon.
JANET KIDD STEWART
"If you are getting ready to retire, don't let stock market volatility panic you", VC Star, November 23, 2017
Early retirement is less for people who hate their jobs and more for those who have a clear idea of a different lifestyle or goal they may want to pursue.
KRISTIN WONG
"The Basics of FIRE (Financial Independence and Early Retirement)", Lifehacker Australia, November 16, 2017
Accept the fact that you are retired. Don't spend all your time wishing the past would return; it won't. Accept instead that your life has entered a new stage, and ahead of you are new adventures.
BILLY GRAHAM
"The ABCs of your life after retirement", Bowling Green Daily News, November 25, 2017
The man who looks forward to retirement when he can go fishing seven times a week, soon finds himself doing the dishes three times a day.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste the blessing.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.
MERRI BROWNWORTH
attributed, Say It With Style
The sign says, "families welcome"
At the Oaks Retirement Home
But mostly, no one comes 'cept on the weekends
Ruby Wilson lives in 303
Where she spends most her time
But it's almost noon on Sunday
And she's been sitting in the lobby since nine
She's all dressed up in her best hat and gloves
She's all dressed up
Watching and waiting, but nobody comes
Some days sure are lonely days
And time can move so slow
When you're all dressed up
With nowhere to go
REBA MCENTIRE
"All Dressed Up"
There are some evils to which a life of retirement is exposed, the principal of which are idleness, humor, conceit, incivility, churlishness, and misanthropy.
E. G. BATES
The Young Gentleman's Book
The idea of retirement is alien to me. When it gives you great joy to do something--in my case, make music--why on earth would you stop?
BENNY ANDERSSON
"Abba's Benny Andersson says idea of retirement is alien to him", Belfast Telegraph, October 28, 2017
Retirement without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Retirement is the number one reason clients come to me for financial planning. It's always a variation of, "Do I have enough?" And it's no wonder why! Everything we read programs us to fear the dreaded retirement. It's as if we have no control over what happens to us when we turn 67. The day hits and there are two paths: those who made their retirement goals, and those who didn't. The 'haves' go on to live a golden hued life filled with travel, golf and rummy cube (I'm not knocking it - I would give anything to play rummy cube all day). Then there are the poor "have nots." These are the ones who just didn't do enough, had bad luck or both. They, needless to say, live a life without rummy.
LIZ FRAZIER PECK
"5 Strategies To Help You Meet Your Retirement Goals (That Don't Involve Saving More Money)", Forbes, October 31, 2017
When the evening of life is spent in retirement, consecrated and improved, a mild lustre usually gilds its close, and the memory of departed excellence is cherished by survivors with sentiments of profound veneration and high esteem.
D. FORBES
attributed, Day's Collacon
You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot.
ANONYMOUS
Well, my retirement plan's a coffee can and it's full of IOUs.
JEFF BATES
"Already Spent"