Retirement Wishes

The point at which a person stops working from his post of employment is known as retirement. Retirement is basically meant for the old to sit back, relax and take a break form the stressful lifestyle and cut throat completion. It also gives one a chance to enjoy the pleasures of the world with the savings made from a life time of hard work and spend time with the family.

If someone you know is retiring, the best way to express your heartfelt wishes is by saying something special about the honoree at a retirement party. Along with choosing from the gift ideas for retirement, speaking appropriate retirement wishes is also very important. The following retirement wishes quotes will help you sketch out your retirement toast and retirement speech ideas. Know more on words of wisdom for retirement.

Funny Retirement Wishes

• ''I wish you the health your mum wants for you. I wish you the strength your wife wants for you. And when you come home late, I wish you the thing that your wife would think, not your mum."
• "Now you are going to have enough time to look at your Mona Lisa. I pray God for you not to pay much for that."
• "The last advice I want to give you is: do not run after a woman like after a train. Remember that there is another one coming. And after all, you can always catch a taxi!"
• At last you will get rid of boring colleagues, annoying bosses and painful duties. The only thing we ask is: pray for us to have the same opportunity one day"!
• "There is no point to count the years. They are not important. Important are the things you did, things we shall never forget. One day I’d like to be remembered like that."
• "The retirement is not going to save you. Your problems will follow you no matter where you are. So will your friends."

Retirement Wishes Quotes

• "Happy days are here at last. The days of 9 to 5 are past. I've worked all my life and paid my dues, Now I'll do just what I choose."
• "I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older, I find that I don't want to do them." ~ Lady Nancy Astor
• "When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch." ~R.C. Sherriff
• I’m retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!
  ~ Anonymous
• "Retirement is a statutory senility." ~ Emmett O’Donnell
• "Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working."
• Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Retirement Wishes Sayings

• "Don't wait for retirement to be happy and really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they have waited much too long." ~ Life's Secret Guide to Happiness
• "Welfare is not a retirement plan." ~ Unknown wise person
• "Heaven, that’s my retirement plan."
• "Retirement is when the living is easy and the payments are hard."
• "I have retired, un retired, and retired again all in the past 10 years. I find the biggest trouble with having NOTHING to do is . . . you can't tell when your done."
• "I retired early for health reasons - my company was sick of me and I was sick of them."

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Retirement Wishes for Teacher

• "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~ Elizabeth Wharton
• "There is a path from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect." ~ G.K. Chesterton
• "I am not young enough to know everything." ~ Oscar Wilde
• "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where you thoughts take you." ~ James Allen
• "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop."Henry Adams
• "Old teachers never die; they just grade away." ~ Unknown

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Retirement Wishes for a Boss

• "Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese."
• "Retirement: World's longest coffee break."
• "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
• "When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired."
• "Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials - much to live on and much to live for."
• "O, blest retirement! Friend to life's decline - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, a youth of labor with an age of ease"!

Retirement Wishes Letter

"Please accept my warmest congratulations upon your retirement. You have enjoyed a long and productive career of which you can justly be proud. Your many contributions as Director of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory are widely appreciated. You have certainly demonstrated a lot of vision and initiative in working to develop the Center as a significant component of the urban and natural resources community in that area.

I have enjoyed working with you and I look forward to a continued relationship. ~ XYZ"

"Dr. ABC,
As I'm sure you know, it is sometimes difficult to find the right words to express a thought. I can only say it will not be the same in the Administration Department without you there. I would also like to thank you for your support throughout the years. And, most importantly, I wish you great fun and happiness now that you will have time to do the things you want to do.
Sincerely,
XYZ"

"Congratulations on this important occasion! I wish you and your family the very best. I'm glad that you will continue to be here, further strengthening the conservation efforts for this unique and special area in which we have the privilege to spend our time. Without your dedication and perseverance, we would not have the diversity and beauty that we do in our surroundings. Thank you!

Sincerely
XYZ"

These were some of the best retirement wishes and retirement wish letters found over the Internet. Retirement is not dwindling quietly in the sunset of life, but rising with a new jest in a new dawn. You can inspire the honoree with some of the wise, funny and motivating retirement wishes and retirement wishes letters. Happy Retirement!