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:
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
Time softly there
Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Ninety-five percent of all jobs suck, Jones. That’s why people get paid to do them.