Retirement Age Quotes:

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. 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

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

topic: Retirement, Work, Holiday, Inspirational Retirement, Drudgery

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

- Helen Hayes

topic: Retirement, People, Age, Retirement Age, Retirement Farewell

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

Age 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

topic: Wine, Old Friends, Age, Best Wine, Old Wine

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

topic: Retirement, Feet, People, Scrap, Recycled

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

- Scott Bakula

topic: Retirement, Age, Shows, Retirement Age

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

- George Foreman

topic: Sports, Age, Income, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Numbers, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

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

- Abe Lemons

topic: Retirement, Days Off, Trouble, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Retirement, Fun, Age, Retirement Age, Retirement Card

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

- Louis Armstrong

source: 1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

topic: Inspiring, Music, Retirement, Jazz Musician, Inspirational Retirement

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "A Little Book of Aphorisms". Book by Frederick B Wilcox, p. 173, 1947.

topic: Retirement, Letters, Retiring, Retirement Age

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

source: Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

topic: Life, Retirement, Age, Inspirational Age, Funny Retirement

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

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

topic: Death, Retirement, Prayer, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Witty, Teacher, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

- Lyoto Machida

topic: Thinking, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age, Retirement Card, Retirement Farewell

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

- Bette Davis

topic: Sexy, Retirement, Funny Inspirational, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

source: "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

topic: Life, Retirement, Business, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

- Margaret Mead

source: Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

topic: Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

A man can't retire his experience.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Experience, Retiring, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

- Robert Benchley

topic: Heart, Youth, Occasional, Funny Retirement, Old Age Humor

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

- Frank Howard Clark

topic: Effort, Age, Helping, Staying Young, Growing Old

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

- Ann Landers

topic: Thinking, Worry, Age, Turning 40, Growing Old

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: 'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

topic: Retirement, Age, Crowns, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Age

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Jack Benny

topic: Mind, Age, Matter, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

- Lord Chesterfield

source: In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1934) (3 April 1773)

topic: Retirement, Years, Two, Retirement Age

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

- Dick Morris

topic: Country, Running, Retirement, Life Expectancy, Retirement Age

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

- Yasunari Kawabata

source: Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Beauty and Sadness”, p.114, Vintage

topic: Retirement, Writing, Age, Retirement Age

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

- Howard Dean

topic: Retirement, Moving, Cutting, Retirement Age

We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.

- Benjamin E. Sasse

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Retirement, Commitment, America, Life Expectancy, Retirement Age

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Retirement, Mean, Years, Retirement Age

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

- Paula White

topic: Retirement, Inspirational Life, Opportunity, Retirement Age

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

- Rand Paul

source: "We Are Live Blogging the GOP Presidential Debate in Colorado" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2015.

topic: Retirement, Age, Way, Retirement Age

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

- Robert H. Jackson

topic: Education, Running, Retirement, Alumni, Retirement Age

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

- Virender Sehwag

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Player, Cricketers, Retirement Age

I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit.

- Clint Eastwood

source: "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

topic: Keep Busy, Retirement Age

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

- Keith Richards

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Age, Retirement Age

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

- Barack Obama

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2007.

topic: Retirement, Cutting, Age, Retirement Age, Wrong Answers

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Retirement, Business, Age, Challenges In Business, Retirement Age

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Art, Retirement, Careers, Retirement Age

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

- Herman Cain

topic: Birthday, Senior, Retirement, Restructure, Retirement Age

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

- Shannon Fife

topic: Retirement, Children, Humorous, Retirement Age

The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

- Joe Heck

source: "Joe Heck: Social Security 'a pyramid scheme'". Interview with David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

topic: Retirement, Thinking, Pyramid Schemes, Retirement Age

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

- Judy Biggert

topic: Retirement, Age, Income, Widowed, Retirement Age

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Retirement, Government, Office, Retirement Age, Generation X

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

- Steve Israel

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Cutting, Manuals, Manual Labor

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

- Ken Buck

source: "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

topic: Retirement, Years, Age, Retirement Age

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

- Mark Skousen

topic: Retirement, Book, Writing, Publishing Books, Retirement Age