Quotes of Retirement - somelinesforyou

“ Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ”

- George Burns

“ Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ”

- Malcolm S. Forbes

“ A short retirement urges a sweet return. ”

- John Milton

“ Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ 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

“ Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Retirement: statutory senility. ”

- Emmett O’Donnell

“ The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security. ”

- Jack Reed

“ For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. ”

- John Sharp Williams

“ Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ 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

“ Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. ”

- Hartley Coleridge

“ Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ The need is there, obviously,... Baby Boomers are facing retirement in 15 years. We have to encourage savings. ”

- Robert Reich

“ That's not really retirement. It's called double-dipping. ”

- John Morley

“ I restore myself when I'm alone. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ This delicious Solitude. ”

- Andrew Marvell

“ Nobody with me at sea but myself. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ”

- Abe Lemons

“ The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ”

- George Foreman

“ The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ”

- Unknown

“ I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ”

- Voltaire

“ When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ”

- Chi Chi Rodriguez
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