#1 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Your Free Retirement Speech
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
#2 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Your Retirement Speech Examples
Don't wait for retirement to be happy and really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they have waited much too long.
- from the best-selling book How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
#3 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Sample Retirement Speeches
Retirement: World's longest coffee break.
- Unknown wise person
#4 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Humorous Retirement Speeches
In your retirement years never drink coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon.
- Unknown wise person
#5 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Free Retirement Speeches
Retirement is a time to make the inner journey and come face to face with your flaws, failures, prejudices, and all the factors that generate thoughts of unhappiness. Retirement is not a time to sleep, but a time to awaken to the beauty of the world around you and the joy that comes when you cast out all the negative elements that cause confusion and turmoil in your mind and allow serenity to prevail.
- Howard Salzman
#6 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to a Free Retirement Speech
Age [along with retirement] appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon
#7 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to a Free Retirement Speech
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
- Abigail Charleson
#8 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Retirement Speech Examples
Retired - Someone who knows it all and has way too much time on his hands to tell you.
- Unknown wise person
#9 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Free Retirement Speeches
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
- Samuel Johnson
#10 Quote of Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes to Add to Sample Retirement Speeches
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials - much to live on and much to live for.
- Unknown wise person
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the
income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez quotes (Puerto Rican golfer, b.1935)
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
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.
Anonymous quotes
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Robert Half
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 Moody quotes (American evangelist 1839-1899)
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
George Foreman
Retirement: When you quit working just before your heart does
Anonymous
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 president, financier and adviser to US
presidents, 1870-1965)
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong (American leading trumpeter, one of the greatest artists
in jazz history, 1901-1971)
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on
the mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree...
when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
-Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-Vince Lombardi
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
To retire is to begin to die.
- Pablo Casals
Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day
which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and
forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control,
diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred
virtues which the idle will never know.
-Basil Carpenter
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had
pimples.
George Burns
Emmett O'Donnell
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes (American clergyman 1878-1969)
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Ernest Hemingway
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy
-Danny McGoorty Irish Pool Player
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Scott Elledge, on his retirement from Cornell
