“I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.”
Source: Bleach, Volume 05
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“I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 641

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book

“My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.”
Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII

“See if you can hold off this pack of blood-sucking scavengers. Here’s my duelling sword.”
The King handed me his own sword! “You have full permission to use it on anyone who looks remotely like a physician.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 3 (p. 47)

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
Source: The Analects