Thatched Hut Hand

Famous quotes containing the words thatched, hut and/or hand:

“Gold or silver mansions are not as good as one’s own thatched house.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“Aeneas. ‘Tis the old Nestor.
Hector. Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,
That hast so long walked hand in hand with time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)