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)

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
We have one loving and one hating hand.
The loving’s made to hold each other like,
While with the hating other hand we strike.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)