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Palmistry Quotes

“If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?”

“Lines of hands don't make destiny, labor of hands does.”

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Book:Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.”

Heart Ideas Hands Left Fingers Mythology Rings Poetic Dreamer Nails Polish Left Hand Nail Polish Palmistry

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.”

“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.”

Selfish Astronomy Astrology Phrenology Anatomy And Physiology Palmistry

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.”

May Shows Science Nature Gone Psychology Trade Selfish Astronomy Astrology Spoons Anatomy Physiology Phrenology Anatomy And Physiology Palmistry

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."”

Character Hands Reading Money Method Spells Wrinkles Obtaining Pretence Dupes Palmistry

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer