Cease

Famous quotes containing the word cease:

    “Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
    What do you mean to vex me so?
    Cease, cease, cease your pleading force!”
    —Unknown. Sweet, Let Me Go! (L. 1–3)

    “It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 20:3.

    “In honored poverty thy voice did weave
    Songs consecrate to truth and liberty;—
    Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,
    Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)