Retirement
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
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Retirement Quotations
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
Henry L. Stimson
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
I've enjoyed my retirement.
Darrell Royal
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone de Beauvoir
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Herman Cain
Retirement Translations
retirement in Afrikaans is pensioen
retirement in Dutch is pensioen
retirement in French is retraite, pension
retirement in Italian is pensionamento
retirement in Portuguese is aposentadoria
retirement in Swedish is tillbakadragande
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