Famous quotes containing the words left hand, left, hand and/or point:
“Although the left hand may conquer the right, no advantage is gained.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I, who travel most often for my pleasure, do not direct myself so badly. If it looks ugly on the right, I take the left; if I find myself unfit to ride my horse, I stop.... Have I left something unseen behind me? I go back; it is still on my road. I trace no fixed line, either straight or crooked.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”
—Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)