Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
Drew Barrymore

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Marquis de Lafayette

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Xenophanes

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood Marshall

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Ann Landers

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs