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:
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
What I believe, what the Labor Party believes, is that marriage is between a man and a woman.
You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.