Hand Dug Wells

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

    And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
    Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 21:23-25.

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

    To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)