Split Hands

Famous quotes containing the words split and/or hands:

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The harlot squatted
with her hands over her red hair.
She was not looking for customers.
She was in a deep fear.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)