Empty Hand

Famous quotes containing the words empty hand, empty and/or hand:

“With empty hands we come; empty handed we go.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The empty woman took toys!
In her sisters’ homes
Were little girls and boys.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)