Retirement Quotes

Retirement:  That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."  ~ Gene Perret


I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.  ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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


Retire? I'm not going to ease up, let up, shut up or give up until I'm taken up. In fact I'm just getting warmed up.  ~ Zig Zigler


Retirement? You're talking about death, right?  ~ Robert Altman


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


Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous.  When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.  ~ George Burns


I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.  ~ Lance Armstrong


Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.  ~ Brendan Francis


Retirement itself is the best gift.  No gold watch could ever top it.  ~ Abigail Charleson


Retirement:  It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.  ~ Gene Perret


Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.  ~ Ernest Hemingway


Retirement: statutory senility.  ~ Emmett O'Donnell


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


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.  ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick


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