Stand Firm

Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or firm:

“No man has hired us
With pocketed hands
And lowered faces
We stand about in open places
And shiver in unlit rooms.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Keep your own secret, and get out other people’s. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people’s. Counterwork your rivals with diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)