Retirement Life Begins When the Kids Move Out and the Cat Gets Run Over

Someone once said, "Life begins when the kids move out and the cat gets run over." Today, for many people that is when they reach retirement age.

Here are a few more retirement quotes, retirement sayings, and retirement jokes that I just placed on my new website The Retirement Cafe:

Bob: Do you have a retirement plan?
Ted: Yup, lottery tickets.
Bob: Lottery tickets? That's it?
Ted: Of course not. Retirment Plan B is to sue some mega-corporation for a milllon bucks.

When the majority of people get my age, once they retire and get Social Security they lay on the couch and do nothing. The next thing you know, they're not with us any more.
— 77-year-old Retiree August Gonsoulin

Retirees have two choices: choose the couch — or choose life.
— Jane McBride

For a happy day, look for something bright and beautiful in nature. Listen for a beautiful sound, speak a kind word to some person, and do something nice for someone without their knowledge.
— Unknown 85-year-old Wise Retired Person

RETIRED: Now I have a life!
— Unknown wise person

To fear retirement is to fear life.
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.
— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting

Also see: WHERE TO RETIRE