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:
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!