Fragmentation Hand Grenade

Famous quotes containing the words hand and/or grenade:

    ...that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it.
    Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 18:21.

    Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
    For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be’s.
    The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
    Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)