Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“When words reach the tip of your tongue, hold back half of them.”
—Chinese proverb.

“the young men who watch us from the curbs:
They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“What I am, and what I think, is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)