quotations about retirement
Retirement is not a static event, fixed in time with a gold watch to mark it. Rather retirement -- if that is even the right word -- is a multidirectional process that can take many years.
ALICE RADOSH
Women Confronting Retirement
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
You know you're ready to retire when you think "getting lucky" means finding your car in the parking lot.
ANONYMOUS
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
Reader's Digest, Volume 67, 1955
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
It is well to retire from this world, to reflect on another.
CHARLES V OF GERMANY
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
Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
RICHIE NORTON
The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret
In the wealthy nations of the world we face nothing less than a thorough redefinition of retirement. To be sure, people will continue to retire from their jobs. But ... retirement will no longer be the twilight of life, focused on rest, recreation, and recuperation; it will now be a time in which people will marshal their experience and intelligence to create entirely new lives for themselves.
PETER SCHWARTZ
Inevitable Surprises
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
ELLA HARRIS
attributed, Say It With Style
When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.
ANONYMOUS
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
The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
ANONYMOUS
My retirement had now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst.
HANNAH MORE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!
ANONYMOUS
The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I won't take stock in a withered man
PANTERA
"Primal Concrete Sledge"
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
MAGGIE KUHN
Ms. Magazine, July 1973
Maybe the worst part of retirement is finding things to complain about. When you work, there is plenty. And working means there isn't time to do much around the house so there is that to complain about. But now I have only myself to blame when something goes wrong. I am my own boss and a pretty awful one at that.
WALLY SPIERS
"Retirement is easy. It's keeping everything straight that's difficult.", Belleville News-Democrat, November 4, 2017
Trying to get by it
So I won't have to quit
Don't wanna spend my nights
Working the dread yard shift
And I'm so sick and tired
Yeah I'm over head
I'm calling this an early retirement
HANDGUNS
"Early Retirement"
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
ANONYMOUS