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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Marriage, Girl

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage, Fear, Build

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

Destiny, Stars, Ourselves

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Best, Onto

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Men

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Youth, Corrupt

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln

Possible, Grip, Bulldog

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

High, Head, Eye

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hands

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Learn, Cat

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy

Good, Future, Nothing

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill

Room, Monkey, Organ

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu

Change, Nothing, Try

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life, Good, Playing

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith, Tomorrow, Two

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Time, Friends, Painful

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

Sad, Play, Stage

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moral, Effort, Authority

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

History, Future, Past

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi

Duty, Conditions, Equally

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Passion, Reason, Drives

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Mind, Two

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius

Knowledge, Allow

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Yourself, Anybody, Higher

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg

Real, Hero, Down

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Heart, Control, Head

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

Experience, Career, Made

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Drunk, Person

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