Yield

Famous quotes containing the word yield:

“While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“You oughtn’t to yield to temptation.
Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
—Anthony Hope (1863–1933)