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:
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.