Retirement Party 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

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

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Worry, Age, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

- Douglas Pagels

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Stress, Color, Rainbow, Inspirational Retirement, Inspirational Stress Relief

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

- Samuel Johnson

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness, Humorous Birthday, Mature And Immature

A man can't retire his experience.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Experience, Retiring, Ciphers, 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 at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

- George Burns

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

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

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Life, Wisdom, Managing Time, Time Spent

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

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

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

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

- Gene Perret

topic: Retirement, Home, Forever, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

- Gene Perret

topic: Success, Retirement, Age, 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

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

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

- Charles Taylor Manatt

topic: Retirement, Party, Way, Colonels, Funny Retirement

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

- Ella Harris

topic: Jobs, Husband, Wife, 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 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

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Retirement, Hard Work, People, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Farewell

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

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Live In The Moment, Want, Action, Inspirational Retirement, Retirement Party

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

- Artie Lange

topic: Birthday, Retirement, Party, 40th Birthday, Retirement Party