Retiring Quotes - Page 3
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
'Lothair' (1870) ch. 28
Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.454, Penguin
The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187