Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm doing OK, I'm not getting rich. I'm not going to retire but I'm doing OK.

Shane Warne

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

Harrison Ford

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Hannah More

My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

Grace Slick

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Esther Hicks

Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!

Ernest Hemingway

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Ernest Hemingway

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

Cat Osterman

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

Evelyn Waugh

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Ray LaHood

He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.

George Burns

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

George Burns

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

George Burns

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

J. G. Ballard

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Ginny Brown-Waite

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Ginny Brown-Waite

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

Ginny Brown-Waite

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

Harry Browne

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

Jeff Garlin

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

As I've said before, I wanted to try to retire at 65 and I'm 65, so we'll see what happens.

They're competitive and they want to stay competitive. It's more than a retirement home.

Kim Cattrall

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Karisma Kapoor

I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

Ken Kesey

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Keith Richards

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Ken Venturi

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

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.

Harry Reid

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.