Quotations About / On: STAY

  • 41.
    A toddler believes that if you love a person, you stay with that person 100 percent of the time.
    (Lawrence Balter (20th century), U.S. psychologist and author. Who's In Control? Ch. 3 (1989).)
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  • 42.
    She sigh'd not that They stay'd, but that She went.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town after the Coronation. . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    When almost all was out, God made a stay,
    Perceiving that alone of all His treasure
    Rest in the bottom lay.
    (George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Pulley (l. 8-10). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books.)
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  • 44.
    Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
    An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
    (James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), U.S. poet. Little Orphant Annie (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 45.
    Mind you, we are mind.
    We are not the kind
    To stay too confined.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Kitty Hawk.")
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  • 46.
    To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    (Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer. Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 9, trans. by P. Motteux (1605).)
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  • 47.
    You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
    (Mike Tyson (b. 1966), U.S. boxer. quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, Feb. 1, 1989).)
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  • 48.
    Sweden,
    what makes the people dress that way
    and those who see you wish to stay?
    (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. A Carriage from Sweden (l. 46-48). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
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  • 49.
    Time, you old gipsy man,
    Will you not stay,
    Put up your caravan
    Just for one day?
    (Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Time, You Old Gypsy Man (l. 1-4). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 50.
    There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    (Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Koncheyev, in The Gift, ch. 1 (1937, trans. 1963).)
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