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:
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
The four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact.
While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
No job is ugly, unless it's made ugly by the person doing it.