Retirement Quotes and
Retirement Sayings
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This webpage of retirement sayings and retirement quotations on the How to Retire
Happy Website tries to cover it all: Mockery. Social commentary. Paradox. Sarcasm. Wisdom.
Nonsense. Ridicule. Irony. Comedy. And Mostly Valuable insight.
Along with the retirement humor and retirement poems on this website, these
inspirational and sometimes funny retirement quotes and retirement sayings should add spice to your
conversations, remind you humorously of your questionable existence, motivate you to greater accomplishments, or
just plainly lighten your day.
All told — you should encounter the best things anybody ever said about retirement and give you
many reasons to retire early.
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The joy of retirement is one of rediscovery — new found time, new found freedom, a new
routine, and renewed appreciation of what life is really about.
— A. Major
As far as I am concerned, people who can't find ways to amuse themselves other than
going to work are to be pittied.
— Unknown retired person
If I'd known that
retirement was going to be this good I'd have done it the day after I left school
!!! — Mickey White (who lives in the United Kingdom and wrote to Ernie
Zelinski about his retirement
book.)
Early retirement is the time to pursue the dream and passion you've left in the corner
while you survived the kids, marriage/divorce or going through the motions of gaining material
things.
— Mona Gallagher
I used to have dreams that I died at my desk.
Now that I've retired, I don't have those dreams anymore.
— Haselback (commenting on an online article about retirment.)
I have retired, un retired, and retired again all in the past 10 years.
— Unknown retiree
I find the biggest trouble with having NOTHING to do is . . . you
can't tell when you are done.
— Unknown retired person
I retired early for health reasons — my company was sick
of me and I was sick of them.
— Author unknown
I’m retired. You on the other hand have to go to work.
— Unknown retiree
The money’s no better in retirement but the hours
are!
— Unknown wise person
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca
Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does.
— Anonymous person in retirement
“We’ll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won’t be the last time. Everyone’s
rocking."
— Ronnie Wood, (in July 2010 at age 63, in response to rumors that the Rolling Stores were going to
retire. At the time, lead singer Mick Jagger was 67, guitarist Keith Richards was 66, and drummer
Charlie Watts was 69.)
I’m now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income.
— Anonymous retiree
A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given
up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.
— Harry Mahtar
You must pursue what you truly want out of retirement, and not what others want you to
pursue or what other retirees are pursuing.
— from How
to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
In retirement, every day is Boss
Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
— Unknown retired person
Retirement gives people the opportunity to think about and reconnect with themselves
and their neglected dreams or the forgotten pleasure of activities that bring joy.
— Mona Gallagher
If you retire right the only thing you will worry about is when to
eat and when to sleep.
— Unknown retiree
Retirement life begins when the kids move out and the cat gets run
over.
— Unknown Retiree
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No longer having to punch a time
clock is my definition of retirement. That way I could do what I want — when I want — anytime I
want.
— Brooky Brown
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The concept of freedom is never truly realized until one
settles into retirement mode.
— A. Major
Retirement is merely ending one venture and beginning a new chapter of life.
— Retired unknown wise person
How one takes care of her or his health before retirement
will determine health in retirement.
— Bruce C. Appleby
The worst days of those who
enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don't.
— E. James Rohn
Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You
Have Ever Been — from How
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For a happy day, look for something bright and beautiful in nature. Listen for a
beautiful sound, speak a kind word to some person, and do something nice for someone without their
knowledge.
— Unknown 85-year-old Wise Retired Person
We've entered a new age of old age. The possibility of experiencing positive, vital
aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is one of the new realities of the 21st century.
— James Firman, Ed.D., president and CEO of NCOA
There are times like this moment, when I sit up all night and paint or
write simply to catch up a bit on all of the paintings I want to do and things I want to write
about.
— Unknown wise retired person
If anyone loves my retirement more than I do, it's
probably the cats. They love having company all day and someone who will sleep in with them.
— Unknown wise retiree
Retirement is like being out of school for the summer but the summer never ends.
— Wise retired person
Retirement is being able to go with the flow of life a little more,
letting things happen naturally instead of always trying to make things happen, knowing it's always
easier to ride a horse in the direction it's going.
— from How
to Retire Happy, Wild and Free (COPYRIGHT
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with Special Permission)
Funny Retirement Quotes and Retirement
Sayings about Aging
Don't waste too much time and energy worrying about getting older. The point is that if you
spend a lot of time preparing for old age, old age will come a lot sooner than you would like. Most centurians
don't know why they have lived so long and don't care.
For instance, in response to why she's lived so long, 100—year-old Hazel Etherington of
Lynchburg, Virginia replied, "I'm not sure. I think maybe it's the pacemaker."
Here are some retirement quotations about age and aging to put retirement in proper
perspective:
Am I older than dirt? I knew dirt when it was still a
rock!
— Unknown wise person
Dying young is overrated.
— Unknown wise person
When the majority of people get
my age, once they retire and get Social Security they lay on the couch and do nothing. The next
thing you know, they're not with us any more.
— 77-year-old Retiree August Gonsoulin
Retirees have two choices: choose the couch — or choose life.
— Jane McBride
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining
young.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Now that I'm older I thought it was great that I seemed to have more patience. Turns
out I just don't give a shit.
— Unknown wise person
Serious Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca
Retiring is easy. Staying retired — now that's the
trick!
— Richard Parker, Author of Retired & Staying Retired; Enjoying the RV
Lifestyle
First Law of Retirement:
Successful retirees change direction, not momentum. Those that don't orbit the couch.
— from Retirement Rocket
Second Law of Retirement: For every benefit fulfilled in the workplace, there must be
an equal or opposite benefit fulfilled in retirement.
— from Retirement Rocket
Third Law of Retirement:
Partners entering retirement need to travel the same orb.
— from Retirement Rocket
Rounds of golf and hands of bridge do not a retirement make.
— from Retirement Rocket
We've entered a new age of old age. The possibility of
experiencing positive, vital aging lasting into our tenth decade of life is one of the new realities
of the 21st century.
— James Firman, Ed.D., President and CEO of NCOA
Tip for prospective retirees from the military: “Be prepared;
it’s difficult because, like I said, the military is a way of life, a total mindset. Civilian life
is totally different. And it’s going to take a while to readjust to civilian life and a lot of
people never do. Believe it or not, a lot of the military guys die within the first two years of
retirement. It’s either because of the stress, the unfamiliar stress of civilian employment, the
unfamiliar stress of having to maintain a home with a lot less than what they give you in the
military.”
— Joe Dibble, at age 65, who retired in Fort Bragg after 22 years in the military
Zen masters tell us that we become imprisoned by what we are most attached to: For
instance:
Cars;
Houses;
Money;
Friends and lovers;
Egos and identities.
Being happily retired is giving up your attachment to these things and setting yourself free.
— from How
to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (COPYRIGHT
© — Used
with Special Permission)
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One week into retirement, you'll be so damned bored that
you'll want to stick bicycle spokes into your eyes. You'll probably opt to look for another
job or start another company. Kinda defeats the purpose of waiting [for retirement],
doesn't it.
— Timothy Ferris in The 4-Hour Workweek
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