20 Retirement Quotes

Retirement can be a blessing or a curse. Finally getting the chance to stop working long hours and finally start enjoying all those things you have thought about while working.

But at the same time, retirement can be a confusing and frustrating time when you don’t know how to spend your new-found freedom. To offer some perspective, we collected 20 retirement quotes to get you thinking, and hopefully smiling. Enjoy!

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20 Thoughts on Retirement

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

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

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

4. Retirement, a time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where you want to do it, and, how you want to do it. – Catherine Pulsifer

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

6. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. – Earl Nightingale

7. A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job. – Ella Harris

8. Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. – Ernest Hemingway

9. Age [along with retirement] appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old
authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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

11. The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income. – George Foreman

12. Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. – Jonathan Clements

13. Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them. – Louis Armstrong

14. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind … it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain

15. I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps. – Merri Brownworth

16. There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. – Robert Half

17. A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. – Ron Chernow

18. Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. – Samuel Johnson

19. Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. – Seneca

20. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. – Simone De Beauvoir

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