Retirement Quotes - Page 3

• Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

  Theresa May

  Children, Moving, Responsibility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Senior, Sick, Political

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• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Security Systems, Elderly, Racism

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• I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

  Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1972). “Acts and monuments”

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• It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

  Gregory Maguire

  Retiring, Despite, Happenings

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• As a World-trekker, go-getter
  Retirement won't have you stopping
  You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from
  At the supermarket....doing the shopping

  John Walter Bratton

  Shopping, Stopping, World

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• I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Purpose, Pace

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.218

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• You've had a long working life
  As everyone knows
  You can now do nothing at all
  And then have a doze
  Enjoy Your Retirement

  John Walter Bratton

  Long, Enjoy, Working Life

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• Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

  Sue Kelly

  Simple, Government, Years

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• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  Mary Crosby

  Vacation, Long, Next

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• The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

  Anne Michaels

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

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• I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

  Mika Hakkinen

  Careers, Luck, Achieve

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• It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Hard Work, Achievement, Pace

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.40, Vintage

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• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  R. H. Tawney

  Teacher, Teaching, Young

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• I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

  George Foreman

  Thinking, World, Might

  George Foreman (2007). “Going the Extra Smile”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

  Scott D. Cook

  Believe, People, Care

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• Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

  Robert Breault

  Retiring

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• Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

  Mason Cooley

  Way, Retiring, Insignificance

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• Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

  J. Paul Getty

  Teacher, Teaching, Age

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• The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Teaching, Giving

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

  Greer Garson

  Wish, Age, Impossible

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Work

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• After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.

  Suze Orman

  Financial Goals, Long, Frustrated

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from May 01, 2016

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• Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Senior, Political, Promise

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