Hold Office

Famous quotes containing the words hold and/or office:

“He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)