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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead. — George Bernard Shaw

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you. — Naval Ravikant

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others. — Ernie J Zelinski

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. — David Mixner

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. — Betty White

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies. — Bette Davis

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired. — Frank Serpico

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. — Arthur E. Morgan

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. — Abe Lemons

Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance. — Chris Hogan

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home. — Steven Wright

Short Retirement Homes Quotes

  • Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. — Phyllis Diller
  • Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. — George Burns
  • Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. — David Gemmell
  • Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
  • Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. — Gary Brecka
  • Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. — Proverbs
  • Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. — Hippocrates

Retirement Homes Image Quotes

Retirement homes quote If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Retirement Home Quotes

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. — Samuel Johnson

Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. — Brianna Wiest

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. — Red Adair

Retirement homes quote If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

I’m going to do what I want, get my money and go home. — Amanda Nunes

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. — Mary Berry

If there are no more tournaments added I could be looking at playing pool. Why not? You don’t want to be sat at home twiddling your fingers all day. — Stephen Hendry

Retirement homes quote Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

I don’t watch ESPN, don’t listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family. — Kawhi Leonard

I just stay home all the time. But the things I have learned outside of basketball is you got to take care of your body. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home or anywhere you go is just knowing your value. — Meghan Markle

Nursing Home Quotes

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. — Atom Egoyan

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home. — Florence Nightingale

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. — Erykah Badu

Retirement homes quote Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.
Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. — Ed Rendell

Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you. — T. D. Jakes

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. — Debby Ryan

Retirement homes quote People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. — John D. MacDonald

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence. — Jamaica Kincaid

I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse would bring the baby to me, and I'd run home periodically, and I'd make it work. But every two hours? That's a whole other level. I'll have to make a nursery at the office. — Ivanka Trump

I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel. — Julie Klassen

Retirement Quotes

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. — William Arthur Ward

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil. — Saint John Chrysostom

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! — Paula White

Retirement homes quote Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the
Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. — Jerry Garcia

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. - Louis Armstrong

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Dickinson

Retirement homes quote Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. — Farid al-Din Attar

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. — Rick Warren

Retirement Years Quotes

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day. — Vijay Kedia

Market history is filled with examples of companies that returned over 100x on an initial investment. The difficulty is in finding and holding on to those companies over many years. — Thomas Phelps

A life without love is like a year without summer. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

Retirement homes quote Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I put a lot of meaning into what will go on my skin and be there for all of my years of life. — Valentina Shevchenko

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out. — Harry Kane

If something is not going to be an obvious double in a short period of time – you know, 2 to 3 years – I have to show interest. — Howard S. Marks

Retirement homes quote We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to  o
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, learn, grow, love and then return home.

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game. — Kawhi Leonard

I’ve been in martial arts for so many years, so to hold the belt of UFC and be on top of the biggest organization, it will be represented in this belt. — Valentina Shevchenko

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame. — Ellyse Perry

I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann

Home For The Aged Quotes

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. — Ogden Nash

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home. — Isaac Watts

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. — Bob Dylan

Retirement homes quote My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. — Blanche Lincoln

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. — Kenneth Tynan

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy. — Howard Coble

Retirement homes quote Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns. — Tom Shales

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18. — M. Scott Peck

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age. — Candace Wheeler

Long Term Care Quotes

Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long-term payoff. — Tim Grover

Make decisions that your 80-year old self and 10-year-old self approve of. The former cares about the long-term compounding of actions, while the latter reminds you to have some fun along the way. — Sahil Bloom

In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective. — Dalai Lama

Build for the long term and the short term will take care of itself. — Rand Fishkin

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. — Mark Dayton

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. — Michael Burgess

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. — Michael C. Burgess

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals. — Chip Kelly

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. — Howard Gardner

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site. — Richard Stallman

Retirement Humor Quotes

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don’t consider myself a comedian. I’m just a YouTuber, I guess just a personality. — Ryan Higa

When one door closes, another one opens. — Alexander Graham Bell

There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It’s not bad to stay a little immature. — Kylian Mbappe

God has a plan for your retirement. — Billy Graham

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing! — Sophie Tucker

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids. — Milton Jones

A man can't retire his experience. — Bernard Baruch

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. — Earl Nightingale

What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse

Good Retirement Quotes

Investors should focus on the process rather than the outcome. Over time, a good process will lead to favorable outcomes. — Gautam Baid

For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other. — Koos Bekker

Investment success doesn’t come from ‘buying good things, but rather from ‘buying things well.’ — Howard S. Marks

Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching – whether it is television or books. We should all share. — Mary Berry

I always had a lot of ideas, and I never thought I couldn’t do something. If you have a good idea and you believe in it, you just go for it. — Glen Bell

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I’m nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that. — Paul Pogba

Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success. — Mary Berry

Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night. — 21 Savage

In the stock market a good nervous system is even more important than a good head. — Philip Arthur Fisher

Retirement Card Quotes

In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp

The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze

It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200. — Amanda Nunes

Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can’t fight that, I have to adapt and change. — Didier Deschamps

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 was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap — Lyoto Machida

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. — Gene Perret

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

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I’m a guy who doesn’t really care about glamour and big markets; I like to be home all day. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

When I’m on tour, I’m in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy. — Pink

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. — Jonathan Clements

[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy. — Martin Short

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. — James H. Douglas

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy. — Robert Pattinson

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin. — John Paul Stevens

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him. — Patience Jonathan

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire! — Groucho Marx

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. — Charles Taylor Manatt

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

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. — Julie Walters

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. — Mark Steyn

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was. — Jim Edmonds

Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself. — Suze Orman

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come. — Mark Zandi

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets. — Robert Kiyosaki

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over. — Darren Flutie

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home! — Carol Vorderman

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. — Bill Copeland

I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one of us could hit one more home run? Obviously, it was supposed to go that way. It's a pretty cool thing, I guess. — Prince Fielder

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back. — Brett Favre

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time. — David Krumholtz

Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college. — Mitt Romney

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security. — Noel Whittaker

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever. — Gene Perret

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left. — Terry Gross

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life. — Charles Todd

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI. — Charles Todd

One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear. — Carly Fiorina

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. — Barack Obama

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