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Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
Sep 29, 2025
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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 the ugliest word in the language.
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
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.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
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: 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.
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
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.
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.