(928 quotes found)
“Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
George F. Burns
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth”
Mason Cooley
“People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
Chi Chi Rodriguez
“For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return”
John Milton
“I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.”
Drew Carey
“The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime”
Shannon Fife
“I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.”
George Foreman
