We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

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

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.

Retirement: statutory senility.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

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.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

Retire? I'm not going to ease up, let up, shut up or give up until I'm taken up. In fact I'm just getting warmed up.