Retirement Quotes and Sayings – Part 1

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

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.  ~Chi Chi Rodriguez

A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.  ~Ella Harris

Retired is being twice tired, I’ve thought
First tired of working,
Then tired of not.
~Richard Armour

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

Retirement:  It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.  ~Gene Perret

I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!  ~Author Unknown

Retirement itself is the best gift.  No gold watch could ever top it.  ~Abigail Charleson

Retirement: World’s longest coffee break.  ~Author Unknown

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me.  I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door.  And, the beauty of time itself.  ~Hartman Jule

O, blest retirement! friend to life’s decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
~Goldsmith

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.  ~Author Unknown

Life begins at retirement.  ~Author Unknown

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.  ~Author Unknown

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.  ~Doug Larson

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.  ~Gene Perret