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:
From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.
(I) have been an interested student of the labor and Socialist movements for more than 30 years.
"I don’t have all the answers to old age. In fact, I rarely think about it".
The fact is, Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together
With any minority group, marginalized communities, there’s extra labor