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)

    ‘T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)