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 ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Such hath it been — shall be — beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one!
“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?”
“Time? Why the present, of course.”
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.