Character Quote by Ambrose Bierce

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made…

— Ambrose Bierce

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand…

— Ambrose Bierce

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

— Meister Eckhart

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate…

— Maimonides

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

— Lauren Myracle

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

— Honore de Balzac

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Reading means borrowing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

— Anna Katharine Green

Spelling is improved when reading is done.

— Stephen D. Krashen

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty,…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

— Anonymous