Shade Of Retirement

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

-- George Washington (22 February 1732 - 14 December 1799), American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797, Farewell Address (17 September 1796)