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 world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.
There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.