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 (18991979)
“What I am, and what I think, is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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