Resta viator et lege! Stand still, traveller, and read!

-Anonymous
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 371 (From Cyzicus in Mysia).

Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

-Archimedes
Traditionally attributed to Archimedes; a variation can be found in Plutarch Marcellus,14.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joshua1:5.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 6:11^17.

And said to the mountains and rocks,Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his 126 wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 6:16^17.

   My love she's but a lassie yet, My love she's but a lassie yet; We'll let her stand a year or twa, She'll no be half sae saucy yet.

-Burns, Robert
  'My love she's but a lassie yet', chorus.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

-Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)
  'Leisure'.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allö By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

-Dickinson,John
  'The Liberty Song'.

Stand Up! Stand Up For Jesus!

-Duffield, George
  The Psalmist, title of hymn. Duffield's inspiration for the hymn came from the dying words of the evangelist Dudley Atkins Tyng to him:'Tell them to stand up for  Jesus.'

If she can stand it, I can. Play it!

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and HowardKoch). The line is commonly rendered'Play it again, Sam', a conflationwith an earlier line of IngridBergman, 'Play it, Sam. Play  As Time Goes By.'

That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
   Julian. Toys in the Attic, act1.

For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth; I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched, bewildered, tattooed, and signed on again; but this is cuspid's last stand.

-Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)
  Crazy Like a Fox,'Nothing But theTooth'.

Your friend the British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Gen Burgoyne to Major Swindon.The Devil's Disciple, act 3.

Every known class of refusal was successfully exhibited. Onehorse endeavoured to climbtherailsintothe Grand Stand; another, having stoppeddeadatthecritical point, swung round, and returned in consternation to the starting-point, with hisrider hanging likea locket around his neck. Another, dowered with a sense of humour

-Martin Ross
Nicaraguan   dictator,   educated   in   the   US.   As   Chief   of   the National  Guard  he  established  himself  in  supreme  power  in the  early 1930s,  and  retained  it  until  assassinated,  when  the rule passed to his sons.

I have lived long enough in the world to know that the safety of a Minister lies in his having the approbation of this House.Former Ministers neglected that and thereforethey fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it, and therefore I hope to stand.

-Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford
  Speech, House of Commons, 21 Nov.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'she said.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Scoop, bk.2, ch.1.

Always remember, sir, that light and shadow never stand still.

-West, Benjamin
Advice to the young John Constable, attributed in C R Leslie Memoirs of the Life ofJohn Constable (1845).