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Retirement

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

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

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought


First tired of working,
Then tired of not.
~Richard Armour

I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.


~Merri Brownworth

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

I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! ~Author Unknown

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. ~Abigail
Charleson

Retirement: World's longest coffee break. ~Author Unknown

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to
notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front
door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule

O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -


How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Oliver Goldsmith

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

Life begins at retirement. ~Author Unknown

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.


~Author Unknown

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


of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson

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


caught at it. ~Gene Perret

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
~Robert Half

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. ~J. Lubbock

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still
working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. ~Author Unknown

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

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


~Gene Perret

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my
commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they
are out having fun. ~Jim Bishop

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~Harry Vardon

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
~Author Unknown

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry
Emerson Fosdick

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we
have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949

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

The money's no better in retirement but the hours are! ~Anonymous

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

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson,
Calvin and Hobbes

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience.
He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have
given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. ~Harry Mahtar
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to
all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A.A. Milne

Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's
essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in
the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know
many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a


day. ~Gene Perret

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation
Day. ~Anonymous

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

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


~George Burns

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author
Unknown

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly;
and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey

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. ~Gene Perret

Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or
a punishment. ~Anonymous

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him
laughing. ~Phyllis Diller

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the
fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm
home - forever." ~Gene Perret
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And
meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
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Enjoy every retirement day as if it was ur last and one day u will be right about it.

If I'd known that retirement was going to be this good I'd have done it the day after
I left school..

Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you
worked.

Retirement, we understand, is great if u are busy, rich, and healthy.

But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Don't act your age , Act like the inner young person you have always been.

Stay buzy [when you retire]. If you are going to sit on the couch and watch TV, you
are going to die.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income

Heaven, that's my retirement plan.

I'm now as free as the breeze � with roughly the same income.

I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Never regret growing old; not everyone has that privilege.

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.

I'm now as free as the breeze � with roughly the same income
To live to 100, have something to live for. Living for something is part of living long

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.

Retired is being twice tired, I have thought 1st tired of working,Then tired of not.

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

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

Retirement with out the love of letters iz a living burial.

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas.The goal is 2 enjoy it the fullest, bt
not so fully that you run out of money.
I feel like early retirement is an incredible gift. It's a gift that every one should give
themselves.

I work harder now that I have retired from corporate life, than when I actually
worked, but I love it.

Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you
were still working.

Retirement may b an ending, a closing, but its also a new beginning.

Im retired - gud bye tension, hello pension!

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

Retirement: It'z nice to get out of thea rat race, bt you have to learn to get along
with less cheese.
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“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
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Abe Lemons quotes (American basketball college Coach. 1922-2002)


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

Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes (American clergyman 1878-1969)


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“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.”

Bernard M. Baruch quotes (American Economist and adviser to US presidents, 1870-


1965)
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“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your
annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
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Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French
authors, 1694-1778)
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“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the
income.”
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Chi Chi Rodriguez quotes (Puerto Rican Golfer, b.1935)
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“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”

Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)


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“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”

Louis Armstrong quotes (American leading trumpeter, one of the greatest artists in jazz
history, 1901-1971)
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“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”

Robert Half quotes


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


pimples.”

George F. Burns quotes (American comedian 1896-1996)


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“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for
retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”

Charles de Saint-Evremond quotes


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Retirement quotes

“When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when
you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired”

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

Gail Sheehy quotes (American Author and Writer, b.1937)


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

Richard Armour quotes


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“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”
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George Foreman quotes (American Boxer, b.1949)


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“I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy”


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Danny McGoorty quotes


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“Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you
retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who
does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.”
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“Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the


hedonism of youth”

Mason Cooley quotes (American , b.1927)


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“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”

Margaret Mead quotes (American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to
the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific
work, 1901-1978)
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“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.”

Dwight L. Moody quotes (American Evangelist, 1837-1899)


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“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)
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People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find
themselves debtor or creditor to some one.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and
Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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“Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does”

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“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a


rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
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Simone de Beauvoir quotes (French Writer and feminist, 1908-1986)


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“To retire is to die.”


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Pablo Casals quotes (Spanish Cellist and Conductor, known for his virtuosic technique,
skilled interpretation and consummate musicianship. 1876-1973)
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“A short retirement urges a sweet return”


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John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to
Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)
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“Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left”

George F. Burns quotes (American comedian 1896-1996)


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“To retire is to begin to die”

Pablo Casals quotes (Spanish Cellist and Conductor, known for his virtuosic technique,
skilled interpretation and consummate musicianship. 1876-1973)
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“The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to
work.”
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G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet,
1874-1936)
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“Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died
at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.”
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THANK YOU

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are
kind. ~Malayan Proverb

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
~David Thomas

Not what we give,


But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped
you. ~John E. Southard

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude
is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no
bottom. ~Author Unknown

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar
Wilde

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from
French

How far that little candle throws his beams!


So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a
good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark
Twain

How beautiful a day can be


When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious
of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be


gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special
need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no
claim. ~William Feather

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