Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings (The Best Things Anybody Ever Said about Being Retired)

Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does.
- Unknown wise person

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

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

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
- Gene Perret

Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do and , and bark".
- Samuel Johnson

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

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
- Unknown wise person

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.'
- Unknown wise person

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door%u2026And the beauty of time itself.
- Hartman Jule

One of the best hearing aids a [retired] man can have is an attentive wife.
- Groucho Marx

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
- Unknown Wise Person

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
- Gene Perret

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.
- Hartman Jule

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.
- Unknown wise person

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

Life begins when the kids move out and the cat gets run over.
- Author Unknown

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- Oscar Wilde

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius

I'm already worn out now - how do they expect us to work several years longer? My body hurts so much and I start working every day at five in the morning.
- Norbert Schmittbauer, a 50-year-old construction worker in Berlin, in response toGermany's proposal to have workers retire at 70 instead of 65

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in retirement. I think it's too important to leave it to the government.
- Peter Schiff, who forecast the U.S. housing bust and the U.S.credit meltdown.

RETIREMENT - now life begins.
- Catherine Pulsifer

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
- Zen proverb

Ultimately nothing matters and so what if it did?
- Unknown wise person

The secret to [retirement] life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde

Doing what you like in your retirement at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Unknown wise person

Life is the only thing worth living for.
- Zen proverb

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A man is not a financial [retirement] plan. But for a troubling number of women, finding themselves without a man in their later years could be poor planning indeed.
- Annette Sampson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald

Based on income levels, most Canadians are maintaining their lifestyles during retirement years, according to figures released by Statistics Canada in early March 2008.

Statistics Canada found that on average, a Canadian at the age of 75 received 80 per cent of the income they were earning at the working age of 55.

The study also found that retire income varied based on level of income during the individual's working years.

The lowest income individuals maintained nearly 100 per cent of their disposable income in their retirement years, mostly because of income from government programs.

"Lower income workers (those in the bottom 20 per cent of the income distribution) experienced little change in income as they moved from the age of 55 through the retirement years. This was largely because of the income maintenance impact of the public pension system," said the study.

"Better-off workers in the top 20 per cent of the income distribution experienced substantial declines in income by time they were 75."

The figures showed that on average, the more disposable income a person had at 55, the lower the portion of income that was replaced in retirement. For those in the top 20 per cent of income distribution at 55, on average, 70 per cent of their income was replaced during their 70s.



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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
- W. S. Gilbert

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
- Orson Scott Card

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
- Slappy White

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
- Jimmy Breslin

Don't feel bad about being unemployed, Dad. I've been unemployed all my life and it's fun.
- Kid talking to his father in Glasbergon Cartoon

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According to a new retirement lifestyle survey, the ongoing volatility within financial markets has prompted a massive increased awareness toward retirement savings by Australian baby boomers.

More than three out of four Aussie baby boomers are beefing up their savings strategy as a result of the turmoil, according to a Commonwealth Bank survey.

The majority of changes included making bigger or additional contributions to their retirement savings plan, while about a third said they were investing more in other investments outside retirement plans such as shares or property.

Interestingly, the Retirement Lifestyle survey found almost 40 per cent of those surveyed considered retirement an opportunity to pursue a new career or learn new skills.

"This trend suggests that many people see retirement as a series of transitions where some form of work or community service can continue into the retirement years,'' Commonwealth Financial Planning general manager Tim Gunnin said.

It's amazing how long it takes to complete something you are not working on.
- Unknown wise person

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

You don't have to watch one minute of TV when you retire - and perhaps you shouldn't!
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
- Douglas Hofstadter

THE REAL 80-20 PRINCIPLE: The first 80 percent of the project takes 80 percent of the time and the last 20 percent of the project takes another 80 percent of the time.
- Graffiti

"The older the violin, the sweeter the music."
Lonesome Dove (1989)
- Gus McCrae (Robert Duvall)

I must retire now to my couch of perpetual indulgence."
Happy Feet (2006)
- Lovelace (Robin Williams)

"65 years. Don't they go by in a blink%u2026"
Meet Joe Black (1998)
- William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins)

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This retirement quote is really boring:

I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.
- Merri Brownworth

This retirement quote is really stupid:

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
- Malcolm Forbes

This retirement quote is really questionalble, as all are:

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 quotes

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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.
- Bernard Baruch

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- J. Lubbock

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind %u2026 it doesn't matter
- Mark Twain

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
- Gail Sheehy

Am I older than dirt? I knew dirt when it was still a rock!
- Unknown wise person

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
- Chi Chi Rodriguez

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
- Gene Perret

Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it
- Catherine Pulsifer