Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Hoggart

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

Robert Altman

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.

Steve Buscemi

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

Steve Bartlett

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Stephen Hawking

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

Sally Kellerman

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

Sally Pearson

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Stuart Rose

I don't believe in retirement.

Steve Israel

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Steve Israel

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

Steve Israel

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Steve Israel

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

Steven Rattner

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Spielberg

I don't want to quit. I've always said that Clint Eastwood is one of my best friends. I've known Clint for many years and we have almost a jokey relationship about retirement. I always say: "OK Clint, are you ready to retire this year?" And he always says: "No, are you?" So, I'm waiting for the phone call where Clint says he's hanging up his spurs. That's never going to happen. If it doesn't happen for Clint, it won't happen for me.

Tommy Chong

I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Russell M. Nelson

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Stephen Colbert

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.

Sophie Tucker

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

Thomas B. Macaulay

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

Stephen Leacock

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Sophie Swetchine

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Tammy Baldwin

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Tom Krause

As time passes on I turn the next page To discover a new me while I continue to age. I may no longer be Who I was long ago But I still can matter - That much I know. With a new set of tools I have gathered from time - I keep looking forward To more mountains to climb. My best is not over As the skeptics might say - I just learn how to conquer In a much wiser way. So don't sell me short - I am not nearly done - I CAN STILL MATTER - I've only just begun.

Shawn Johnson

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Sue Kelly

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Sue Kelly

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

Robbie Fowler

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Rand Paul

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

Rand Paul

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered.

Sheena Iyengar

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.