"Language is the mother of thought, not its…" — Karl Kraus

More Handmaiden Quotes

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• 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… — Philip Johnson
• Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Unknown Author
• Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and… — 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.… — 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… — Learned Hand
• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity,… — Israel Shenker
• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. — Mark Twain

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