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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:
A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.
It is from Eternity that the representatives of God on earth derive their Authority.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart,
Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future.