Retirement Homes Quotes

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

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

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

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

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.

It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

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

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.