Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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:
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.