Withdraw

Famous quotes containing the word withdraw:

“If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee. Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 13:9-10.

“The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“To withdraw myself from myself ... has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)