Exercise Held

Famous quotes containing the words exercise and/or held:

“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)