Definition of Keeping

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Keeping

of Keep

A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

Related Definitions:

Are, Art, As, Between, Care, Cattle, Charge, Conformity, Congruity, Consistency, Correspondence, Custody, Different, Each, Feed, Foreground, Good, Guard, Harmony, Have, Holding, In, Is, Keep, Keeping, Maintenance, Not, Of, Or, Other, Painting, Preservation, Provision, Restraint, Support, The, These, This, With, Work

Keeping Quotations

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

Keeping Translations

keeping in French is gardant
keeping in German is haltend, aufbewahrend

Quotes