Leave

Famous quotes containing the word leave:

“They say that my donkey-hearted lover
might leave sometime tomorrow.
Grow long, Blessed Night,
so that for him
tomorrow just won’t be.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)