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:
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
My inheritance, how wide and fair
Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.