Thatched Hut Hand

Famous quotes containing the words thatched, hut and/or hand:

“Gold or silver mansions are not as good as one’s own thatched house.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“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)