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:
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.
A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.