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.
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Most quoted on retirement:
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards,
So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
"Men work together," I told him from the heart,
"Whether they work together or apart."
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?