Famous quotes containing the word chokes:
“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)
“Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)