Holding Office

Famous quotes containing the words holding and/or office:

    Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
    Love can transpose to form and dignity.
    Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
    And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Reason is, and only ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
    David Hume (1711–1776)