Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Mitch Daniels

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

Margot Kidder

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

Mitt Romney

Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

Mitt Romney

No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

Lilly Ledbetter

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Lester Piggott

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

Paul Hogan

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Ken Buck

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

Ken Buck

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

Kazuo Ishiguro

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

Kristin Armstrong

It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oliver Goldsmith

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Oliver Goldsmith

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Kathy Ireland

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

Elizabeth Janeway

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

B. C. Forbes

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

Ava Gardner

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Mary Crosby

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

Lee Johnson

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.

Tanya Tucker

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Lindsey Graham

We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

Linda Evangelista

All I want to do is model. The reason I'm coming back is for the same reasons that I became a model initially. It's about the clothes and the creation of great pictures. I thought I was old and that I earned my retirement, and enough! It's not enough. I want more. And I'm lucky that I still have that option.

Peter Forsberg

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Pete Sampras

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

Pete Sampras

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Pedro Martinez

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

Phyllis Diller

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

Keith Ellison

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Scott Rigell

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

Thierry Henry

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.