Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“Shallow. Doth she hold her own well?
Falstaff. Old, old, Master Shallow.
Shallow. Nay, she must be old, she cannot choose but be old,
certain she’s old.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)