Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
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:
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.
The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.
Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor.
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.