RETIREMENT QUOTES II
quotations about retirement
To fear retirement is to fear life.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.
LINDA GOODMAN
Linda Goodman's Star Signs
What people miss most in the early months of retirement is structure. Their daily routine has suddenly disappeared and they feel adrift.
ROBERT KELLEY
The Complete Guide to a Creative Retirement
Retirement is assuredly favorable to the advancement of the best ends of our being; there the soul has freer means of examining into its own state and its dependence upon God.
HANNAH MORE
"On Retirement", The Works of Hannah More
How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Feast of Stephen
Retirement? You're talking about death, right?
ROBERT ALTMAN
attributed, Words from the Wise
With many retirees expected to spend 20 or even 30 years in retirement, you should have more ambitious goals than being shuffle-board champion of your 55+ community (though an admirable goal). Dream big and work hard to make those dreams a reality. When you retire, it is finally your time. No more alarm clocks to spend eight hours a day doing what someone else tells you to do.
GARY PARSON
"Retirement is about more than money", Tallahassee Democrat, January 23, 2016
Retirement is the prison and punishment of the fool, the paradise of the wise and good.
RICHARD LUCAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
We need a sexier term for retirement. It doesn't fit anymore.
MITCH ANTHONY
The New Retirementality
I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
DEREK LANDY
Mortal Coil
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY
attributed, The Quotable Quote Book
Retirement is not the end of the road.... It is simply a fork in the road, sending you off in a new direction.
HILARY HENDERSON
"Retirement is a change of pace, not end of the road", BDlive, February 10, 2016
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money.... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
HORACE
Satires
We prefer to avoid men, and to shun the world, in order that we may seek in retirement, the only peace that is possessing, the only happiness which is left us to enjoy.
LORD ACTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ
attributed,, The Money Tree: Money, How to Make It, Save It, and Grow It
My research on the happiest retirees lends some real numbers to the plateau effect. In terms of net worth (including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and cash), those retirees with around $100,000 reported feeling unhappy or just slightly happy. And here's where it gets really interesting. The $500,000 mark was the inflection point where folks moved from slightly happy to moderately happy, all the way up to extremely happy. Net worth beyond $500,000 was not found to have much additional impact on happiness.
WES MOSS
"Why $500,000 is a key figure in retirement planning", My AJC, November 17, 2017
There is more happiness in retirement than in ruling an empire.
DIOCLETIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Washington and Cincinnatus in their retirement, were greater than Caesar or Bonaparte in the zenith of their power.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it -- and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Reader's Digest, Volume 56, 1950