Retirement Match

Famous quotes containing the words retirement and/or match:

    “Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
    Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
    And know the explanation I must pass is this
    MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)