Retirement Card 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 Baruch

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

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

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Retirement, Jobs, Business, Funny Retirement, Funny Boss

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

- Richard Armour

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Tired, Funny Retirement, Retired Teacher

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Retirement, Work, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Card

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

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Husband, Men, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Retired Teacher

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Fun, Aging, Getting Old, Funny Retirement, Middle Ages

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

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

- Gene Perret

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Nice, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Funny, Retirement, Native American, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

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

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

- Abe Lemons

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

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

- Gene Perret

topic: Inspirational, Retirement, Stress, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Worry, Age, 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

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Boss, Age, Funny Retirement, Retirement Card

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

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

- Ella Harris

topic: Jobs, Husband, Wife, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

- John Lubbock

topic: Inspirational, Success, Summer, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Retirement

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

- R. C. Sherriff

topic: Men, Age, Matter, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Card

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

- Jonathan Clements

topic: Running, Retirement, Vacation, Inspirational Retirement, Long Vacation

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

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

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Wisdom, Funny Retirement, Wealth, Retirement Card, Retirement Party

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

- George Burns

topic: Aging, Retiring, Shows, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Retirement, Autumn, Blow, Maple, Inspirational Retirement