4,258 Quotes About Hands

  • Author Alton Brown
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    So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

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