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Famous Retirement Quotes

Retirement Quotes

Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.

— Dianne Nahirny

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 , and bark.

- Samuel Johnson

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

- Douglas MacArthur

The secret to [retirement] life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Bernard Baruch

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

One of the best hearing aids a [retired] man can have is an attentive wife.

- Groucho Marx

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

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

— Mason Cooley

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

There are so many other interesting ways to spend your time. I feel like early retirement is a gift, but it's such an incredible gift. It's a gift I need to use.

— Martha Felt-Bardon

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

— John Burrough

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.

— Susan Miller

Retirement Poems

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun,

Nor the furious winter’s rages.

Thou thy worldly task hast done,

Home art gone and ta’en thy wages.

— William Shakespeare

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought

First tired of working,

Then tired of not.