A Farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving. The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech", though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion (ἐπιβατήριον), the corresponding speech made upon arrival.
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Famous quotes containing the words farewell and/or speech:
“O farewell griefe, and welcome joye,
Ten thousand times therefore;”
—Unknown. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (l. 49–50)
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)