Quotes on Retirement -Cheerless

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Some would say these quotes are depressing but it all depends on how you incorporate them into your speech.

For example, you could include no.10 as follows:

Pablo Casals said 'to retire is to die', well I say 'if dying is about sleeping in late, wearing open toe sandals  and being able to play golf all day, dying can't be all bad'.

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.- Vince Lombardi
• I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. -Voltaire
• Retirement takes all the meaning out of weekends.- Unknown
• Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcolm S. Forbes
• Retired is being twice tired, I've thought -- First tired of working, Then tired of not. - Richard Armour
• The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. -Unknown
• 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
• Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. - Gene Perret
• A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• To retire is to die. - Pablo Casals
• There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. -Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.- Simone De Beauvoir
• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.-George Foreman.
• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.- Norman Vincent Peale
• Retirement is the ugliest word in the language- Ernest Hemingway
• To retire is the beginning of death.- Pablo Casals
• In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.- Mason Cooley

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