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:
My minimum definition of work is forced labor, that is, compulsory production.
Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
While soldiers were winning victories, so-called labor leaders were engaged in high treason.
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.
Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.