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 four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."
You can’t get out of getting old. You can’t get out of having a relationship change.
Work is the best and worst of all things; the best of it is voluntary, the worst of it is servile.
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation — except work for it.
No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.
But old age was approaching with cruel, hushed steps and sometimes in crafty disguises.