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:
Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
There comes some time an end to all things, to the good and to the bad.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.