When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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.
As elsewhere on the site, each quote links to its own page with the source and the editors’ notes. If you want to put a name under a line in a card, check for a flag first.
Most quoted on retirement:
"Maybe I should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after Labor Day."
Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.