Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“If you can hold your present position, we shall hive the enemy yet.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,spose youd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, Id feel badId feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, whats the use you learning to do right, when its troublesome to do right and aint no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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