Hands

Stick them up! Here are some proverbs and quotes about hands.

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A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.
Be happy with what you have.

A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.

All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

Even the hand of compassion is stung when it strokes a scorpion.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

He beat the creature off with his hands - it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet, as small spiders do to flies - until he remembered his sword and drew it out.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo.

Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander Pope

Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot.
Diane Spicer

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Gautama Buddha

In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil

It brought thousands of dark-grey and black moths, some nearly as big as your hand, flapping and whirring round their ears.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the effect of lighting watch-fires

Kiss the hand that you cannot bite.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Many hands make light work.
Sharing work makes the work easier.

One hand can't hold two watermelons.

Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
Quoted: Gimli

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do
They're only saying I love you
Louis Armstrong
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World

The devil makes work for idle hands.
People who are idle, often get into trouble.

The gardener's hands are black with earth but his loaves are white.

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Bible
Source: Proverbs 30:28

Two watermelons cannot be held in one hand.
Do not attempt to take on more than you can handle.

Wash your hands and disinfect your thoughts.
Daniel G. Amen

We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
William Shakespeare

When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines

You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.

You can't pick up two melons with one hand.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

You can’t do much carpentry with your bare hands, and you can’t do much thinking with your bare brain.
Bo Dahlbom

Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
Dave Barry




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