Who remove stones, bruise their fingers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man's best friends are his ten fingers. [ Robert Collyer ]
Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers. [ Proverb ]
He that handles pitch shall foul his fingers. [ Proverb ]
Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. [ A. Smith ]
The string that jars
When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense,
With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,
Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. [ Rowe ]
Who removes landmark stones, bruises his fingers. [ Proverb ]
He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. [ Proverb ]
As well as his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. [ Proverb ]
Fingers were made before forks and hands before knives. [ Swift ]
There's no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Proverb ]
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. [ Hans Christian Andersen ]
Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur. [ Proverb ]
Wit without wisdom, cuts other men's meat and its own fingers. [ Proverb ]
I will give up my gun when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. [ Unknown ]
Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owner's fingers. [ Arrowsmith ]
To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Before decay's effacing fingers have swept the lines where beauty lingers. [ Byron ]
He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
To blow on the flute is not to play on it; you must move the fingers as well. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. [ Lilly ]
Beauty has no lustre except when it gleams through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it. [ Maturin ]
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. [ Earl of Sterling ]
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]
We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]
Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]