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Quotes About Retirement

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.
~ Don Rickles
Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.
~ Ray Mancini
Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
~ Michael Phelps
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
~ Mos Def
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
~ Peter Mayle
I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
~ Richard Lamm
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
~ Paddy Ashdown
We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
~ Herb Kohl
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
~ Bill Frist
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
~ Mark Dayton
You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.
~ Karrie Webb
I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.
~ Ken Buck
Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
~ Lennox Lewis
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
~ Dwight David Eisenhower
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
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.
~ Unknown
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
~ Noel Coward
The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.
~ Shannon Fife
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.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
~ Unknown
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
~ William Osler
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
~ Napoleon Hill