Retirement Verses, Poems

  Welcome to Retirement Verses
which brings you the chapter and verse of free, short, funny retirement card poetry which includes verses, poems, quotes.
Here's the best short cute funny and inspirational retirement poems, messages, wishes, speeches, wordings and sayings for older people, old friends, retiring men, women, teachers, nurses, our soldiers, policemen, firefighters, pastors etc. These poems are suitable for personal use on greetings cards and scrapbooking pages 







 



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Retirement Poems for your free use



This retirement lark's not easy
There's no gain without the pain
It can't be (golf) and (gardening)
Your knees won't stand the strain


JB c 2004

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You're not the retiring kind
This is just the beginning
Of a new and exciting chapter
May it bring greater personal fulfilment
Than you ever thought possible

Have a very long and happy retirement

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Retirement
You earned it
Now enjoy it

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Congratulations
On your well deserved retirement

And we wish you happiness in the years ahead

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Retirement Quotes


When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard Milhouse Nixon

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.
Lester Piggott on his retirement.

There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it retirement. I call it bliss.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the work I was best suited for was retirement.

I like retirement life. It's something to do when no one wants you to work anymore.

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You're retired
Goodbye tension,
Hello pension!

Enjoy your retirement years

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Retirement Quotes


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

When you get to retirement, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret

In retirement there's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbe




A Poem for Retiring Soldiers


Let the bugle blow
Let the march be played
With the forming of the troops
For your last parade

Let the bugle blow...
Fire the evening gun...
Slowly lower the colours...
Your retirement has begun


More Retirement Quotes


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

When a man reaches retirement and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. ~R.C. Sherriff

When a man reaches retirement, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ~Gene Perret

When you reach retirement, 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. ~Author Unknown