APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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:
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason.
A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.
Whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.
Today human activity, the labor of the human body, is rapidly being engineered out of working life.