quotations about retirement
Maybe the worst part of retirement is finding things to complain about. When you work, there is plenty. And working means there isn't time to do much around the house so there is that to complain about. But now I have only myself to blame when something goes wrong. I am my own boss and a pretty awful one at that.
WALLY SPIERS
"Retirement is easy. It's keeping everything straight that's difficult.", Belleville News-Democrat, November 4, 2017
There is no fixed or ideal pattern to respond to the circumstances of retirement. Each solution is a personal one and can be endlessly modified to suit your wishes and desires. That's the fun of it.
ROBERT KELLEY
The Complete Guide to a Creative Retirement
A person accustomed to a life of activity longs for ease and retirement; and when he has accomplished his purpose, finds himself wretched.
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings
The thing to do is to make so much money that you don't have to work after the age of twenty-seven. In case this is impracticable, stop work at the earliest possible moment, even if it is at a quarter past eleven on the morning of the day when you find you do have enough money.
ROBERT BENCHLEY
My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
In retirement a man may have the company of the gods.
EPIMENIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
NORA ROBERTS
Blue Smoke
A lot of my co-workers have already retired ... they just haven't told their boss yet.
JOHN WAGNER
Maxine: Crabby Road, September 23, 2013
Retirement is a time of transition to an entirely new stage of life and it's not what people tell you. It's not immediate bliss and it's not this freedom and ease. You have 10, 20, 30 years of life left. What are you going to do with them?
CAROL LARSON
"Redefining Retirement with the Retiree Rebels", NBC 15, February 19, 2016
Turn me loose, set me free
Somewhere in the middle of Montana
And give me all I've got coming to me
And keep your retirement
And your so-called Social Security
Big city turn me loose and set me free
MERLE HAGGARD
"Big City"