Retirement Quotes - Page 11

• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Home, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Given, Given Up

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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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

  Character, Home, Interesting

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

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• It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

  Nigel Benn

  Giving, Needs, Satisfaction

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• We're just not ready for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. And we'd better prepare for that.

  Paul Ryan

  Baby, Ready, Boomers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British, French, and American Politicians upon their retirement. But I have been criticized before and I expect to be again.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Writing, Practice, Style

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

  David Letterman

  Russia, Utah, Squad

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• To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

  Robert Bly

  Lying, Years, Adults

  Source: www.utne.com

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• When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Mean, Phoenix

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, College, Solitude

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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• Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Gun, Gentleman, Gold

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• We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

  David Gill

  Squad, One Day, Quality

  “Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United manager after 27 years” by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

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• It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Character, Challenges, Remember

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.842, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.

  Mills Lane

  Pennies, Comfort, Watches

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• Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process.

  Lee Johnson

  Years, Creative, Done

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Teaching, Air

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.

  Chris Hogan

  Family, Dream, Opportunity

  Twitter post from May 24, 2016

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• The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, War, Years

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• Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'

  Chris Jericho

  Goodbye, Hero, Sunset

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• I would love to do both but I think I believe there's a thing as overexposure and I think people will get sick of me real quick. I kind of basically looked at it as my retirement plan now. That's definitely something I can do when I'm not wrestling anymore. And believe it or not - this sounds horrible - but it was really easy for me. I would really love to do both. I'd love to wrestle and do commentary, I think that would be awesome.

  CM Punk

  Real, Believe, Wrestling

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• One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.

  Hedrick Smith

  Intellectual, Problem, Poor

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's probably also smart to keep some money in cash to invest it. But I would resist at all costs taking a lump-sum distribution because the tendency is to spend out too fast in the early years of your retirement. The advice of professionals is to take out no more than 5% per year and that will give you 20 years of distributions, and at your age, 55, you probably have more than 20 years life expectancy.

  Hedrick Smith

  Smart, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Wasting Time, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Next Steps, Pay

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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