Handmaiden Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
— Karl Kraus
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
— Branch Rickey
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
— Horace
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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
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
— Albert Scott Crossfield
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
— Stanley Fish
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
— Alexander Cockburn
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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
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Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
— Ravi Zacharias
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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
— Eric Temple Bell
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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
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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
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
— Alain de Botton
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Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.
— Hannah Hurnard
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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
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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: