Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“Soft are the hands of Love,
but what soft hands
clutched at the thorny ground,
scratched like a small white ferret
or foraging whippet or hound.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)