If you are trying to find a good way of improving a retirement card and what to write in it then using some retirement quotes is a sure fired way to do so. You have lots of options too, allowing you to choose for them to be inspiring, reflective and even funny quotes.
A retirement quote can be used to say what you have been struggling to yourself, or to bring a new light to the situation. There are many famous and inspiring figures from history and art who have said incredible things about retirement and what it’s like. So take advantage of other people’s wise words when it comes to retirement and use one or more of the selection of retirement quotes we’ve compiled below.
- People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German playwright, poet, novelist and dramatist. 1749-1832)
- The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income. – George Foreman (American Boxer, b.1949)
- I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box. – Bette Davis (American actress, 1908-1989)
- Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left. – George F. Burns (American comedian 1896-1996)
- 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 (French Writer and feminist, 1908-1986)
- 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 Mannes Baruch
- Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire. – Margaret Mead (American anthropologist, 1901-1978)
- A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell ’em to get a life. – Larry Laser
- Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. – Ernest Hemingway (American novelist and short-story writer, Nobel Prize
winner for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961) - He who laughs last at the boss’s jokes probably isn’t far from retirement. – Anonymous
- When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. – Chi Chi Rodriguez (Puerto Rican Golfer, b.1935)
- When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy (American writer, b.1937)
- I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. – Danny McGoorty
- There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. – Robert Half
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