Quotes about Retirement

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Remember to consider the recipient when choosing one for example, a quote about coffee such as no.18 would be irrelevant if the retiree is not a coffee drinker.

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• Before
• During
• Defining

• Before Retirement

Quotes about retirement preparation

1. Before deciding to take early retirement from your job, stay home a week and watch daytime television.- Unknown
2. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.-Harry Emerson Fosdick
3. 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. - Arthur E. Morgan
4. When is the right age to retire? When you dread going to work.- Mary Bright

During Retirement

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1. Enjoy every retirement day as if it was your last and one day you will be right about it.- Unknown
2. 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
3. Stay busy [when you retire]. If you are going to sit on the couch and watch TV, you are going to die.- Bill Chavanne
4. In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. - Mason Cooley
5. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely - Unknown
6. The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.- Susan Miller
7. We have no porch, no rocking chair - and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire - the younger the better.- Maurice Musholt
8. A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.- Walter Gagehot
9. Don't act your age [in retirement]. Act like the inner young person you have always been.- J. A. West
10. Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcolm S. Forbes
11. I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! - Unknown
12. Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.-Louis Armstrong
13. Retirement is a time to look back with satisfaction, and a time to look ahead with anticipation. A time to fill each day with enjoyment. A very special time for you- Unknown

Quotes On Retirement Defining quotes about retirement

1. Retirement: World's longest coffee break.- Unknown
2. When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.- Virginia Graham
3. Retirement: The time in your life when time is no longer money.- Unknown
4. I feel like early retirement is an incredible gift. It's a gift that everyone should give themselves.- Unknown
5. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. - Margaret Mead
6. Retirement: No Job, No Stress, No Pay!- Unknown
7. Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. - Maggie Kuhn
8. When he retires you get twice the husband but half the money- Unknown
9. Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.-Mason Cooley
10. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson
11. Retirement is when you have given so much of yourself to the Company that you don't have anything left that the Company can use.- Unknown
12. Retirement: When every day is Saturday! - Unknown
13. Retire from work, but not from life.- M. K. Soni

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