Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“Anne,
who were you?
Merely a kid keeping alive.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“She was poor, but she was honest,
Victim of the squire’s whim:
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she lost her honest name.”
—Unknown. She Was Poor but She Was Honest (l. 1–4)
“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)