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:
To depend on another's nod for a livelihood, is a sad destiny.
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
There's no need to reminisce about the past; obviously because that shit did not last.
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working."