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Is Retirement the Beginning of a New Life? Find Out With These Retirement Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Retirement is a time when one is done eking out a living and can sit back and enjoy the fruits of labor. Feel the breeze, smell the flowers, hear the birds, and appreciate this wonderful life. Retirement is also the beginning of a journey of self-discovery. So go ahead, and rediscover yourself. Life holds a lot in store when you have the time to explore its full potential.

Malcolm Forbes
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Bill Watterson
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Gene Perret
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

George Foreman
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Merri Brownworth
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps.

Betty Sullivan
There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it "retirement." I call it bliss.

Hartman Jule
I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.

Gene Perret
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Ella Harris
A retired husband is often a wife's fulltime job.

Groucho Marx
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit… retire!

Robert Half
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

R. C. Sherriff
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

Mason Cooley
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Bill Chavanne
Stay busy [when you retire]. If you are going to sit on the couch and watch TV, you are going to die.

Charles de Saint-Evremond
Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

Richard Armour
Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

W. Gifford Jones
Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.

Abe Lemons
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Ernest Hemingway
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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