Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well- bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“An inquiry about the attitude towards the release of so-called political prisoners. I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)