Quotes About Retirement

Most governments in western countries are basically bankrupt. They won't be able to guarantee you a safe retirement like your parents might be enjoying right now.

Finally, often as we relax or "tune out" other distractions, sometime after "retirement" for example, some previously hidden, latent interests, talents or abilities quite suddenly, and surprisingly, emerge. Sometimes that emergence is actually a re-kindling of some earlier childhood abilities, such as art, for whatever reason set aside with maturation and "growing up.

I don't miss politics.

She did not want to be Bilong's mother, or her grandmother. She had done with these roles, with being a good child, a good wife, a good mother. She had put seventy-odd years into it; she had worked hard at it; now she wanted to be that Ofelia who painted and carved and sang in an old cracked voice with strange creatures and their stranger music. The

Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

They call Florida the wrestling graveyard because it's where we all end up. The weather is easier on us here.

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

I'm an old man. A big weekend for me is Home Depot and a Caesar salad.

But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.