(411 quotes found)
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.”
John Milton
“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
Virgil
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.”
Cleopatra
“On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at...”
Mitch Hedberg
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A bad tree does not yield good apples”
Danish Proverb
“Let the soldier yield to the civilian”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
