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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ~Abe Lemons Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949 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 When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes "Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me," Hartman said in sudden seriousness. "I never felt that I had the time before to notice the true beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself." ~Terri Guillemets Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. ~R.C. Sherriff Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni Hartman finished his speech with a toast: "I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my steam iron..." ~Terri Guillemets Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. ~Gene Perret In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day. ~Terri Guillemets Retirement is like a long vacation in Vegas. The goal is to enjoy these years to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements, "Playing the Right Cards For a Long Retirement," The Wall Street Journal, November 1999 I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career. ~Mike Hammar Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ~George Burns You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~Ernest Hemingway Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey 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 The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. ~Malcolm Forbes There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com The money's no better in retirement but the hours are! ~Terri Guillemets Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home — forever." ~Gene Perret
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