People don't grow up — they just begin to overestimate their own importance.
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:
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.