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:
With starving labor pampering idle waste;
To tear at pleasure the defected land.
Liberty and Union (United States), now and forever, one and inseparable.
I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…
Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.