Quotes About Retirement

But how should women perform so wise and glorious an achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowing gowns, decked out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers?

Education is the best provision for old age.

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

One day you retire, and you get a social life.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

The olive grove of Academe,Plato's retirement, where the Attic birdTrills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.

A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.

With his partner gone, Hastings lost his momentum. In 1920, he retired as an active member of the firm.1 The beneficiaries were Shreve and Lamb.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

His lordship seemed quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to rapid, he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he was surprised to meet his gaze intently upon him, with a smile of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but his smile haunted him.

Stoner said to Finch, "I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

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

so mean that her death would cause a thousand of Hell's toughest demons to opt for early retirement.

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

The driving force behind every career or profession is nothing else but passion. Yes! it (passion) kindles and rekindles one's desire to pursue and realize a vision or aspiration all over again and again, until he or she decides to retire. ~Emeasoba George

The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.

Open an IRA to shelter some of your income. This is a fine way to build a nest egg for the future.

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.