Palmistry Quotes
- Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence… — Ambrose Bierce
- In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a… — Kurt Vonnegut
- 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 by… — Ambrose Bierce