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Hold Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence…
- An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds…
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more…
- It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it…
- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
More Hold Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams