Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
““... But don’t you think we sometimes make too much
Of the old stock? What counts is the ideals,
And those will bear some keeping still about.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“To learn virtue takes three years; to learn evil, one day.”
—Chinese proverb.