RETIREMENT QUOTES &
SAYINGS
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Retirement Sayings & Quotes -- you will find a wide selection of
retirement quotes & sayings at Poem4Today.
Using these quotations can be an excellent way for you to say
thanks or raise a smile for someone who is retiring.
If you've been asked to give a speech, you'll probably want to
celebrate all that they have contributed and to join them in their
anticipation of a happy future ahead.
You can find some great retirement poems which may also be
helpful.
Here's some quotes on retirement for you (some famous, some less
so), the first is particularly humorous -
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul
Samuel Ullman
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with
serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my
retirement.
Thomas Jefferson
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying
your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to
be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to
nothing with perpetual motion.
Shakespeare
‘Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburdened crawl toward death
Shakespeare
I’m not in the speechmaking business nowadays. I’m following the
advice of an old mountain woman who said: ‘When I walks, I walk
slowly. When I sits, I sits loosely. And when I feel a worry coming
on, I just go to sleep.’
Lyndon Johnson, US President
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life
long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of
yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness
of the fruit that is going rotten.
George Bernard Shaw.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be
the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise
myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in
the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws
under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and
the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and
dangers.
George Washington, US President
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
This is also one of my favorite readings that can sometimes be
appropriate when celebrating a retirement:-
May you have enough happiness to keep you happy.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you thoughtful.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
Enough friends to give you comfort.
Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish depression.
Enough wealth to meet your daily needs.
Enough determination to make each day a better day than
yesterday.
Do you have any suggestions for additions to this page, please
email us with your ideas for quotes or sayings for a retiree.
Thank you for visiting retirement quotes & sayings.
retirement quotes & sayings at Poem4Today.
Using these quotations can be an excellent way for you to say
thanks or raise a smile for someone who is retiring.
If you've been asked to give a speech, you'll probably want to
celebrate all that they have contributed and to join them in their
anticipation of a happy future ahead.
You can find some great retirement poems which may also be
helpful.
Here's some quotes on retirement for you (some famous, some less
so), the first is particularly humorous -
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul
Samuel Ullman
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with
serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my
retirement.
Thomas Jefferson
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying
your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to
be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to
nothing with perpetual motion.
Shakespeare
‘Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburdened crawl toward death
Shakespeare
I’m not in the speechmaking business nowadays. I’m following the
advice of an old mountain woman who said: ‘When I walks, I walk
slowly. When I sits, I sits loosely. And when I feel a worry coming
on, I just go to sleep.’
Lyndon Johnson, US President
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life
long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of
yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness
of the fruit that is going rotten.
George Bernard Shaw.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be
the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise
myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in
the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws
under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and
the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and
dangers.
George Washington, US President
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
This is also one of my favorite readings that can sometimes be
appropriate when celebrating a retirement:-
May you have enough happiness to keep you happy.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you thoughtful.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
Enough friends to give you comfort.
Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish depression.
Enough wealth to meet your daily needs.
Enough determination to make each day a better day than
yesterday.
Do you have any suggestions for additions to this page, please
email us with your ideas for quotes or sayings for a retiree.
Thank you for visiting retirement quotes & sayings.
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