Put Off

Famous quotes containing the word put:

    Where’s Heloise, the learned nun,
    For whose sake Abeillard, I ween,
    Lost manhood and put priesthood on?
    Francois Villon (1431–1465)

    The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger—so it be done for love, and not for ostentation—do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)