101 Funny Retirement Slogans and Mottos

The number one goal of the baby boomer generation is to be debt free. 35% of this generations retirement rely upon social security. An average of 4 out of 5 baby boomers plan to stay residing in their current home during retirement. The below list of retirement slogans capture this changing lifestyle and the humor associated with a life of working. These have been used by other retirees and meant to inspire you during a time of change.

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
A short retirement urges a sweet return.
A wife’s full-time job starts when her husband retires.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it.
All of the wonderful things you’ve done for us will not be forgotten. Congrats on the fruits of your hard labor!
All the best for an amazing retirement! Enjoy your new chapter in life, where you become your own boss.
All The Best wishes on your early retirement. Enjoy the new opportunities to do fun and wonderful things just for you.
Are you ready for that golf trip you were always telling me about? Enjoy your golf retirement!
Are you seriously retiring already?
As one chapter ends, another begins, welcome to your new found freedom!
Consider this an extended vacation that never ends… Only you don’t get paid days off.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Enjoy the fruits of your hard labor. Here’s to wishing you a relaxing and wonderful retirement.
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
For those of you who don’t know what to do after retirement, the answer is simple: whatever you want.
Happy retirement wishes! Wishing you all the best in your new retired life.
Have fun with your new found freedom! Here’s to hoping your retirement is a dream come true!
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make- up box.
I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.
I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!
If you start thinking about retirement in six months’ time, you’re already there.
In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
It doesn’t take age to retire, it takes money.
It will be tough to find someone that works as hard and is dedicated as much as you are! Congrats from the whole team!
It’s sad to say goodbye, but great to know you are headed on to greener pastures!
Leave your past behind and embrace your new future. Work it over, retirement is here!
Life begins at retirement.
Make sure you enjoy retirement like you enjoyed working with all of us.
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Never again will you have to face dreaded Mondays! Every day for you is the weekend now!
Now that you are retired, what are you going to do with all of that free time?
Now that you got your boss off your back you can do what you want, when you want, as long as your wife approves.
Now that you’re retired you can do all the things you enjoy.
Now that you’re retired, you get to spend everyday with your wife.
Now that you’ve retired, you can start doing all of the wonderful things I’ve heard you talking about over the years!
Retire from work, but not from life.
Retirement… is when you stop living at work and begin working at living.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.
Retirement from Job does not mean retirement from life! It is the beginning not an end!
Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me.
Retirement holds new beginnings for you.
Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
Retirement is a time given to find God within yourself.
Retirement is all about embracing your future and leaving the past behind. Enjoy the years ahead!
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
Retirement is the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Retirement is to leave office and to live at home with more appointments of extended family.
Retirement is when the living is easy and the payments are hard.
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials – much to live on and much to live for.
Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.
Retirement to me does not mean nothing to do but the realization of the decisions I made in the past. That I made in my life.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
Retirement: Goodbye to setting my alarm for work. Hello to setting my alarm for Garage Sales.
Retirement: Something arrived at in haste and lived at in leisure.
Retirement: That’s when you return from work one day and say, ‘Hi, Honey, I’m home, forever.’
Retirement: The time in your life when time is no longer money.
Retirement: World’s longest coffee break.
Retiring means less responsibility and “almost” no work.
Say goodbye to slow Mondays and pointless staff meetings! Your new life is waiting for you.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.
Thank you for always challenging us to become the best at what we do.
Thank you for always motivating us to do our best.
Thank you for being an amazing example for me and our team.
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
The money’s no better in retirement but the hours are.
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Think about it, now you never have to ask for a day off again.
To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.
We hate to see you go, but love to see you walk away… into retirement that is ha ha ha.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
When you quit working just before your heart does.
When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
You are a very motivating and pleasant person to work with. You will not be forgotten after you retire!
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You deserve retirement!
You have earned every bit of your retirement days! We are so happy for you!
You have made us and the company better, and for that we thank you. Enjoy your retirement!
You leave your old boss in the past after retirement and start life with your new boss, your wife.
You never thought this day would come…
You will always be remembered for your accomplishments.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

An average of 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement daily. As of 2010, there were a total of 72 million baby boomers that reside within the United States. The following infographic below outlines statistics and trends of this generations retirement outlook.