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 mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
The rest that follows labor should be sweeter than the rest which follows rest.
Old age is the repose of life,—the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand.
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.