Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“What? for I know not yet what you will say.
alc: Nor will you ever, if you interrupt.
Proceed, and I will hold my speechless tongue.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)