Keeping

Famous quotes containing the word keeping:

    Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongs to us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
    —Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)