Retirement Quotes - Page 32

• Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Cities, Storm

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Needs, Asking, Pay

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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

  Uncles, Home, Fire

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Work, Greatness, Should Have

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• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Fun, Aging, Middle Ages

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Stress

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

  Groucho Marx

  Work, Age, Quitting

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

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Long

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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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, Age, Goes On

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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• Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fall, Mean, Loss

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Age, Wrong Answers

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2007.

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• Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

  Saul Bellow

  Golf, Too Much, Shortcuts

  Saul Bellow (2009). “The Actual: A Novella”, p.38, Penguin

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• Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Kids, Vacation, Careers

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• For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

  Suze Orman

  Years, Play, Long

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• What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

  Keith Richards

  Jobs, Age, Normal

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• Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

  Dan Ariely

  Giving Up, Shoes, Differences

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Interfere

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• The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

  Michele Bachmann

  Different, Looks, Gone

  "CBS News/NJ debate transcript". National Journal debate on foreign policy and national security, www.cbsnews.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

  Cathy Freeman

  Heart, Decision, Way

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• I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

  Drew Carey

  Guy, House, Problem

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• I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Eye, Thinking, Order

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.12, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Home, Self, Europe

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

  William Rehnquist

  Doe, Good Work, Should

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

  Artie Lange

  Birthday, Party, Names

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