I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

-Darman, Richard G(ordon)
Address to the White House press room. Quoted in Brian Kelly Adventures in Porkland (1992).

Patience is passive, resignation is active.

-Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary
  Innocence.

Imyself believethat wehave lostthiswaröineverything but actuality.When I see scores of sheep go to a slaughter-house I do not feel constrained to admire their resignation.

-Grieve
  Letter to George Ogilvie,12 Nov.

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

-Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx
  Recalled in his autobiography, Groucho and Me (1959), ch.26.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

-Shultz, George P(ratt)
  Turmoil andTriumph.