Retirement Homes Quotes

• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  Abe Lemons

  Retirement, Days Off, Trouble

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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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• 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

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Worry, Age

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• Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

  Jonathan Clements

  Running, Retirement, Vacation

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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• Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Strength, Retirement

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

  Ella Harris

  Retirement, Jobs, Husband

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

  Gail Sheehy

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

  George Burns

  Funny, Teacher, Witty

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• Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Home, Forever

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• I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

  Voltaire

  Life, Retirement, Age

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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• The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

  Charles Taylor Manatt

  Retirement, Party, Way

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• Age 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

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Weekend

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• There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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• In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Country, Retirement, Long

  Diary entry, April 15, 1836.

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• There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Work, Age

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Retirement, Home, Vacation

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• I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Beautiful, Retirement, Reading

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• Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

  Kathy Ireland

  Retirement, Jobs, Home

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• For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

  Carol Vorderman

  Retirement, Home, Building Up

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• You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

  Dave Barry

  Retirement, Uncles, Home

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• [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

  Martin Short

  Retirement, Character, Home

  "Hot Seat". Time Out New York, Issue 565, August 02, 2006.

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