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:
The secret is comprised in three words — Work, Finish, Publish.
One a child, one old
almost half a century apart // both
need my hand in this city
So, on beyond Z!
It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know
All there is to be known.
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Some of the ideas I try to get across to the people who work for me are the following