Handle

Famous quotes containing the word handle:

“One who can handle a pen will never have to beg.”
—Chinese proverb.

“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can’t tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter; but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren’t handle high explosives; but you’re all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)