Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion. A man cannot utter two or three sentences, without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or, in that of ideas and imagination, in the realm of intuitions and duty.”
—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)
“Thou almost makst me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)