Famous quotes containing the words numbers and/or retired:
“Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
Her classics registered a little flat!
I rose, and venomously spat.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)