Best hands & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.”

Wells Kind May Whole Hands Eye Able Views Objects Succeed Aim Distance Sticks Selfish Command Horizon Cunning Discretion

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.”

Ifs May Hands Water Ideals Companion Slips Ducks Fatigue Pipe Drains Rubber Bathtubs Rubber Ducks

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.”

Firsts May Hands Lasts Passion Pity Impulse Pockets Distress Assistance Scarce Transitory Short Lived

Book:Essays, poems and plays

Source: Essays, poems and plays

“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.”

Writing May Use Hands Left Knowing Accounts Inferiors Left Hand Knowing Myself

Author:John Milton

“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”

People Ifs Want Mind May Mean Hands Religion Stones Weak Sight Idols Far Away

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

“Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.”

May Body Hands Lord Cutting Gold Request Restoration Deposits Calves Worshippers

Author:Andrew Jackson

“If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.”

Ifs May Hands Fall Millions Arms Destruction Madness Blessed Unions Raised Lifts Curse Delusion

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.”

May Hands Action Hate Emotion Urges

Author:Alice Duer Miller

“Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.”

Feels Writing May Hands Force Sound Greater Pages Standing Pens Middlemen

Author:Neil Simon

“I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.”

Ifs Thinking May Facts Hands Levels Worry Harder Phones Stealing Drunk Enjoyment Pockets Over You Unnecessary Coats Wallets

Author:Jon Richardson

“With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.”

Men May Hands Lure

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.”

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“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”