25 Must-Read Quotes About Retirement

“I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.
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- Jarod Kintz

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

“Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.”
- Charles Baxter

“The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them.”
- Frank Eberhart

“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 L. Moody

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
- George Burns

“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

“Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.”
- Suze Orman

“I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!”
- Author Unknown

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.”
- Betty White

“If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.”
- Sean Connery

“I need to retire from retirement.”
- Sandra Day O’Connor

“Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.”
- Ben Stiller

“As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.”
- Earl Nightingale

“I enjoyed retirement the right way… linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.”
- Craig Kilborn

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

“You get old faster when you think about retirement.”
- Toba Beta

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

“First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.”
- Branch Rickey

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

“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

“Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf.”
- Gene Perret

“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
- Seneca

“Don’t act your age [in retirement]. Act like the inner young person you have always been.”
- J. A. West