Hand Quotes

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. (Plutarch)
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. View quote
Sophocles
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. View quote
Epictetus
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with. View quote
Juan Gris
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. View quote
Cardinal Richelieu
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. View quote
Mae West
Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. View quote
Woody Allen
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Ben Hecht)
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected. View quote
Robert Orben
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' View quote
Sam Levenson
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. View quote
Berthe Morisot
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. View quote
Ezra Pound
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. View quote
George Washington
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. (Leonardo DiCaprio)
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. View quote
Jonathan Swift
It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand. View quote
Michelangelo
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
📖 Hand Proverbs