Hand Dug Wells

Famous quotes containing the words hand, dug and/or wells:

    “The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble in reading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,—or enemies,—or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862?–1942)