Quotes About Retirement

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Allen Walker, we're giving you a chance to abandon the Order of your own free will. (heart) This is your retirement party. (heart)

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

There's one thing I hope we will all be able to agree on. It's about our commitments. I'm talking about Social Security. To every American out there on Social Security, to every American supporting that system today, and to everyone counting on it when they retire, we made a promise to you, and we are going to keep it.

Retirement security also depends upon keeping the commitments of Social Security, and we will. We must make Social Security financially stable and allow personal retirement accounts for younger workers who choose them.

We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.

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

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

And here's a fact that should get you thinking: when Social Security set the retirement age at sixty-five, the average life expectancy for a male was sixty-one. It makes us realize how little Social Security was designed to pay out. The subsequent surge in life expectancy has changed the math of retirement entirely.

Perhaps he would achieve some sort of peace, the peace of an elderly man, a peace of cosy retirement without angels. Without women too, he thought.

I told you I was going to retire from the world. That's still on. You remember that.

En español, al retiro del trabajo lo llamamos «jubilación», término que deriva de «júbilo», porque se parte de la base que es la época ideal en que uno hace lo que le da la gana. Ojalá fuera así. A menudo eso no sucede cuando el cuerpo y el presupuesto no dan para hacer lo que a uno le dé la gana. Además, está comprobado que rara vez el ocio hace la felicidad.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Yes, I'm 68, but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke, so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit, you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?