A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.
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:
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.
I turned sixty-five this year and I take old age seriously. There's work to be done.
The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business.
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.
Old age, for it has seen and suffered much,
Brings aye some wisdom to the council board.