hands Quotes

“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.”

“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.”

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”