Handmaiden Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. — Branch Rickey
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat,… — Philip Johnson
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. — Stanley Fish
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: — Alexander Cockburn
She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There… — Edna O'Brien
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it. — Ravi Zacharias
The Handmaiden of the Sciences. — Eric Temple Bell
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and… — Learned Hand
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental… — Israel Shenker
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. — Mark Twain
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. — Alain de Botton
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. — Hannah Hurnard
I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life... — R.L. LaFevers
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. — Vernor Vinge

Who Wrote These Handmaiden Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 24 Handmaiden Quotes as follows: