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Quotes About Retirement

Anyone with any sense welcomes retirement,
~ Miss Read
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
~ Mitch Daniels
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
~ Mitch McConnell
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
~ Mitch McConnell
He had observed so many men just like himself over the years, men in retirement walking wee, quivery dogs over the streets of their neighborhood, a wrinkled plastic bag in their free hand;
~ Monica Wood
There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.
~ Morrie Schwartz
I'm retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
~ Muhammad Ali
Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan.
~ Muhammad Ali
Loneliness as an early retirement.
~ Unknown
Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.
~ Unknown
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
~ Nadia Comaneci
Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.
~ Nalini Singh
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have retired, but if there is anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
~ Nelson Mandela
People retired from the world burn their candles here, even as they tirelessly pray for the world.
~ Unknown
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
~ Nolan Ryan
O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity. The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world. Yet Jesus Christ never encourages the idea of retirement—He says, "Go and tell My brethren . . ." (Matthew 28:10).
~ Oswald Chambers
The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings. Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I've decided to kill myself. I'm going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. 50 share, easy.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
~ Unknown
Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
~ Pat Cadigan
Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.
~ Pat Summitt
The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day's work for twenty years, seven days a week, and retire sound." He snorted. "The drive now is for pretty lawn ornaments. The Arabian horses were originally bred as weapons of war, and now they are artwork.
~ Patricia Briggs