Retirement Quotes
Retirement does not have a Wikiquote page, so this one borrows from three that do: work, time and age. The result suits a card or a send-off speech better than a close reading. There are lines about labour well done, about the years running on, and about being old that are rueful more often than sentimental.
As elsewhere on the site, each quote links to its own page with the source and the editors’ notes. If you want to put a name under a line in a card, check for a flag first.
Most quoted on retirement:
It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty.
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor.
All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.