quotations about retirement
There is no fixed or ideal pattern to respond to the circumstances of retirement. Each solution is a personal one and can be endlessly modified to suit your wishes and desires. That's the fun of it.
ROBERT KELLEY
The Complete Guide to a Creative Retirement
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
NORA ROBERTS
Blue Smoke
The first step is to make the decision to have a productive life after retirement and not just to settle into a traditional life of extended leisure.
JOHANN REDELINGHUYS
"Retirement is a change of pace, not end of the road", BDlive, February 10, 2016
The thing to do is to make so much money that you don't have to work after the age of twenty-seven. In case this is impracticable, stop work at the earliest possible moment, even if it is at a quarter past eleven on the morning of the day when you find you do have enough money.
ROBERT BENCHLEY
My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
A lot of my co-workers have already retired ... they just haven't told their boss yet.
JOHN WAGNER
Maxine: Crabby Road, September 23, 2013
In retirement a man may have the company of the gods.
EPIMENIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Retirement is a time of transition to an entirely new stage of life and it's not what people tell you. It's not immediate bliss and it's not this freedom and ease. You have 10, 20, 30 years of life left. What are you going to do with them?
CAROL LARSON
"Redefining Retirement with the Retiree Rebels", NBC 15, February 19, 2016
A person accustomed to a life of activity longs for ease and retirement; and when he has accomplished his purpose, finds himself wretched.
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings
Turn me loose, set me free
Somewhere in the middle of Montana
And give me all I've got coming to me
And keep your retirement
And your so-called Social Security
Big city turn me loose and set me free
MERLE HAGGARD
"Big City"