Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

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

“For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast it off.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“the disgust won and because
of this I am a hoarder of words
I hold them in though they are
dung oh God I am a digger
I am not an idler
am I?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)