Retirement Quotes

Besides inspiring retire quotes, there's some quotes that's funny in nature too.

If you're moving into retirement or have already retired, look to these quotes for inspiration and encouragement.

If you're looking for a suitable quote to cheer up a retiree, sprinkle some of these quotes into your cards and letters!

A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'emto get a life.
-- Larry Laser

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

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirementis planning.
-- Earl Nightingale

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

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, by A.A. Milne

Enjoy every retirement day as if it was your last and one day you will be right about it.
-- Author Unknown

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing partof the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
-- Stephen Leacock

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

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

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

Life begins at retirement.
-- Author Unknown

No longer having to punch a time clock is my definition of retirement. That way I could do what I want — when I want — anytime I want.
-- Brooky Brown

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

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

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
-- George F. Burns

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.
-- 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

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
-- Gene Perret

Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials — much to live on and much to live for.
-- Author Unknown

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

Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.
-- Dianne Nahirny

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

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
-- Margaret Mead

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

The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement.
-- Author Unknown

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

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

There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it "retirement." I call it bliss.
-- Betty Sullivan

We have no porch, no rocking chair — and no time. My biggest needis a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire — the younger the better.
-- Maurice Musholt

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

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

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

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