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:
Time flies on restless pinions—constant never.
Be constant—and thou chainest time forever.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
I've found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you're supposed to be