Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
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:
I am a real representative of the working class because I earn my living by my actual manual labor.
This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.