Retirement Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

19 Retirement Quotes
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“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
Abe Lemons Quotes
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
“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 M. Baruch Quotes
“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 Quotes
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes
“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
Bette Davis Quotes
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong Quotes
“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”
Robert Half Quotes
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
George F. Burns Quotes
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond Quotes
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
Unknown Quotes
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
Unknown Quotes
“It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.”
Scott Elledge Quotes
Source: on his retirement from Cornell
“I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”
General Douglas MacArthur Quotes
Source: in a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress
“The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.”
Anonymous Quotes
“A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.”
Anonymous Quotes
“The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
“Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes