Retiring Quotes

• Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Retirement, Live In The Moment, Want

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Retirement, Successful

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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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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• I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

  Gene Perret

  Success, Retirement, Age

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• I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

  Martina Navratilova

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

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

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• In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Golf

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• When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

  Virginia Graham

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Retirement, Work, Age

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• Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Nice

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Retirement, Income

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• Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Burden, Plans

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• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

  Stephen Hawking

  Retirement, Years, Thirty

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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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• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

  John Anthony West

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Retirement, Evening, Boxes

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Retirement

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Inspirational, Retirement, Soldier

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