For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,

Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home;

Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Good Bye.

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

John Webster (1578-1632): Westward Hoe. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Stand not upon the order of your going,

But go at once.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.