Famous quotes containing the word chokes:
“Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)