Retirement Quotes for a Card
Finding the right words for a retirement card can be tricky — you want to celebrate someone's career without sounding like a corporate memo. These retirement quotes work well in a card, a speech, or a farewell email, whether the retiree is thrilled to go or a little unsure what's next.
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“Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about it.”
— Sir Fred Astaire
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
— Abe Lemons
“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.”
— Unknown
“Retire from work, but not from life.”
— M.K. Soni
“Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.”
— Leslie Nielsen
“You are not retiring from work, you are beginning a life of leisure and dreams come true.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
“A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.”
— Ella Harris
“The best thing about retirement is not looking at your watch anymore.”
— Unknown
“Time is the only true currency, and now you have plenty of it.”
— Unknown
“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
— Italian Proverb
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault