Sayings about Hands
Empty hands only please their owner. ~ Ugandan Proverb
If the eyes didn’t see, the hands wouldn’t take. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~ Kurdish Proverb
The eye sees, but the hand can’t reach. ~ Palestinian Proverb
A thief has more than two hands. ~ Chinese Proverb
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch. ~ Dutch Proverbs
You must judge a man by the work of his hands. ~ African Proverb
There is no hand to catch time. ~ Indian Proverbs
Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart. ~ Danish Proverbs
Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~ Dutch Proverb
If it were not for the hands, the clock would be useless. ~ Polish Proverbs
Long tongue — short hands. ~ Czech Proverb
Golden hands, but a wicked mouth. ~ Russian Proverbs
The hand suffers at work, but the mouth still must eat. ~ Sudanese Proverb
Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to your friends but give your lips only to a woman. ~ Yiddish Proverb
When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray. ~ Irish Proverbs
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never. ~ Traditional Proverb
The hands of a lawyer are always in someone’s pocket. ~ Indian Proverb
A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple. ~ Mauritanian Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. ~ Traditional Proverb
Smooth hands love the labor of others. ~ Russian Proverb
A lot will stick to dirty hands. ~ German Proverbs
The palm of your hand will not obscure the sun. ~ Tuareg Proverb
Practice with the left hand while the right is still there. ~ African Proverb
If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean. ~ Russian Proverb
Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance. ~ Dutch Proverb
The scent of a rose will always stay on the hand of the giver. ~ Chinese Proverb
Many hands make light work. ~ English Proverbs
There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger. ~ German Proverb
The world is in the hands of fools. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The hand that gives is also the one that receives.~ Iranian Proverbs
Gloves hide the ugliest hands. ~ Romanian Proverb
With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree. ~ Russian Proverb
One hand washes the other and both wash the face.~ Greek Proverb
It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand. ~ German Proverb
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.~ Jewish Proverb
Scatter with one hand, gather with two. ~ Welsh Proverb
You don’t milk a cow with your hands in your pockets. ~ Russian Proverb
If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands. ~ Chinese Proverb
The Tsar has three hands but only one ear. ~ Russian Proverb
Hands that give also receive. ~ Ecuadorian Proverb
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair. ~ Iranian Proverb
You cannot climb a tree with one hand. ~ Gabonese Proverb
Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work. ~ Welsh Proverb
You cannot applaud with one hand. ~ Iranian Proverb
Give cheerfully with one hand and you will gather well with two. ~ Lash Proverb
Nothing wipes your tears away but your own hand. ~ African Proverb
Kiss the hand that you cannot bite. ~ Romanian Proverb
A hand that is ready to hit may cause you great trouble. ~ New Zealander Proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. ~ Traditional Proverb
Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.~ Persian Proverb
Clapping with the right hand only will not make a noise.~ Malawian Proverb
Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
Don’t put it in my ear, but in my hand. ~ Russian Proverb
You cannot carry two watermelons in one hand. ~ Arabian Proverb
Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand. ~ Arabian Proverb
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out. ~ Yiddish Proverb
No matter how dark it is, the hand always knows the way to the mouth. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Be like the mouth and the hand: when the hand is hurt the mouth blows on it, when the mouth is hurt the hand rubs it. ~ Malagasy Proverb
If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings. ~ African Proverb
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. ~ Persian Proverb
Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands. ~ Russian Proverb
He who writes love letters must have clammy hands. ~ German Proverb
He who has no hand cannot clench his fist. ~ Jewish Proverb
When one hand washes another, both become clean. ~ Dutch Proverb
There isn’t a sword that would cut off a golden hand. ~ Turkish Proverb
Promises have legs. Only a gift has hands. ~ German Proverb
God gave us hands but He doesn’t build bridges with them. ~ German Proverb
The hand of God is with the group. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
You can’t use your hand to force the sun to set. ~ Nigerian Proverb
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. ~ German Proverb
Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off. ~ Arabian Proverb
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. ~ Irish Toast
Handfuls make a load. ~ Irish Proverb
It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head. ~ Dutch Proverb
Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. ~ Portuguese Proverb
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. ~ American Proverb
Crawling on hands and knees has never prevented anyone from walking upright. ~ Kenyian Proverb
Wash your hands in the flowing Ganges. ~ Hindu Proverb
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. ~ American Proverb
Hold on to a true friend with both hands. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Only what you have in your hand is not a lie. ~ Romanian Proverb
One hand can’t clap. ~ Palestinian Proverb
Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence. ~ Turkish Proverb
Adversity comes with instruction in his hand. ~ Welsh Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~ Traditional Proverb
The hand of the stranger is heavy. ~ Basque Proverb
You cannot hide the sun with one hand. ~ South American Proverb
Snake at your feet – a stick at your hand! ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Active hands, full bellies. ~ Cambodian Proverb
A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.~ German Proverb
Men will not be fortunate without a helping hand from misfortune. ~ Russian Proverb
A hand that has been chopped off cannot steal any more. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Two watermelons can’t be held in one hand. ~ Afghan Proverb
Who bathes his hands in blood will have to wash them with tears. ~ German Proverb
Too many hands will row the boat up a mountain.~ Japanese Proverb
There is no point in offering a helping hand to someone who wants to drown. ~ Basque Proverb
Quotations about Hands
The question is not so much what the hand is doing but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it. ~ John R. Stott
Whoever falls from God’s right hand Is caught into his left. ~ Edwin Markham
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. ~ Dorothy Solle
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. ~ Frederick E. Crane
The gift of friendship… … a pair of helping hands.~ Author Unknown
God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays. ~ John Masefield
A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. ~ George Herbert
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ~ Honore De Balzac
I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. ~ Mother Teresa
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ~ Anne Frank
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ~ H.T. Leslie
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.~ Clint Eastwood
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. ~ Joan L. Curcio
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. ~ Menander of Athens
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. ~ Samuel Osgood
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. ~ Bible
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. ~ Denis Waitley
If you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. ~ Samuel Levenson
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~ Alexandria Penney
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor. ~ Ella R. Bloor
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. ~ Samuel Johnson
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. ~ Edward Gibbon
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
The open hand of giving is always full. ~ Author Unknown
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. ~ Billy Graham
Put your future in good hands — your own. ~Author Unknown
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. ~ Orison Swett Marden
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~ Ralph Waldo
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ~ Eric Hoffer
Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon
The world is in your hands, now use it.~ Phil Collins
The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away. ~ Carl Sandburg
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Heda Be Jar
He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud. ~ Author Unknown
Before you point your fingers be sure your hands are clean. ~ Bob Marley
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. ~John Aikman Wallace
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn’t make sense not to use both. ~Jeannette Rankin
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. ~ William Shakespeare
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ` Hubert H. Humphrey
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ~ Meister Eckhart
Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact. ~ Aleqa Hammond
The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. ~ Francis Bacon
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ Erica Jong
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I’ve taken my destiny into my own hands and I’m in a happy place. ~ Charlie Simpson
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. ~ Aeschylus
I’ve taken my destiny into my own hands and I’m in a happy place. ~ Charlie Simpson
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction. ~ Marie Corelli
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~ Laurence Leamer
Prayer puts God’s work in his hands — and keeps it there.~ E.M. Bounds
One of the best ways to do yourself a favor is to lend somebody else a helping hand. ~ Author Unknown
Nature has made you for a giver: Your hands are born open, and so is your heart.~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Walk boldly and wisely…. There is a hand above that will help you on. ~ Philip James Bailey
Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another. ~ Pope John XXIII
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement Put them to work today. ~ Wilfred A. Peterson
Put your hands to work, and your hearts to God. ~ Mother Ann Lee