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:
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
The labor ministry's position is to protect the right of workers to strike.
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor.
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...