Hands Quotes - Page 20

• Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bible, Book, Taken

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

  Emma Goldman

  Blessed, Dear Ones, Giving

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.164, Library of Alexandria

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• Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
  [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

  George Herbert

  Evil, Afar

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• For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

  George Herbert

  Land, Washing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Water, May

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Snow, Hollywood

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Weather, Rocks

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Bullying, Travel, Sight

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• Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
  And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Pleasure, Cease

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79

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• While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Selfishness, Virtue, Benevolence

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, May, Lasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Kings, Real

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Essays and The Bee”

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• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Bible, Men, Grace

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

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• The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Compassion, Abuse, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

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• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste Makes Waste, Dry, Littles

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Bloody, Hard

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

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• For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Bible, Taken, Law

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.611

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• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nature, Wind, Tree

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• I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Essence

  Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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• Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

  Clifford Stoll

  Skills, Creating, Everyday

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• The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Hair, Blonde

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• People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Want, Way

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