Hand Dug Wells

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

    The hand I burned and whose skin is shriveled like that of a mummy’s is less sensitive than the other to cold or heat. My soul is the same; it passed through fire.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    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)