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:
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I am not old yet!
Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.
There’s always work that must be done...Life’s so simple when we simply work to make it fun.
We shall see what we shall see. We have the start now; the developments will follow in time.