Retirement Speech Quotes

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

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

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

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.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

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.

When one door closes, another one opens.

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.

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

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

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

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

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.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

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

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.