Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Robertson

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

P. D. James

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Ozzy Osbourne

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

Mark Zandi

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

Theodore Bikel

Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Margaret Mead

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Kin Hubbard

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

Michele Bachmann

The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

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.

Mason Cooley

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Mason Cooley

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Mason Cooley

Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

Mason Cooley

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

Mary Landrieu

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Martin Short

[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

Michael Jordan

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

Mark Dayton

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Ozzy Osbourne

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

Paul Ryan

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Paul Ryan

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Patty Murray

The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.

Patrick Leahy

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Julia Roberts

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

Julia Cameron

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Greta Garbo

I have made enough faces.

Gresham Barrett

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Jilly Cooper

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Jerry Doyle

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Jerry Della Femina

Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.

Jerry Garcia

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.