Fingers Proverbs

Sayings about Fingers

I may have lost the ring, but I still have the fingers! ~ Italian Proverb

The person with burned fingers asks for tongs. ~ Samoan Proverb

Without fingers the hand would be a spoon. ~ Moroccan Proverb

He who has long fingers should also have long legs. ~ Swedish Proverb

Offer a clown your finger, and he'll take your fist. ~ Dutch Proverb

When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. ~ Zambian Proverb

Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle. ~ Traditional Proverb

When you point your finger at someone, look where the other fingers point. ~ Jamaican Proverb

Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger. ~ Chinese Proverb

Five fingers are brothers but not equals. ~ Afghan Proverb

No one puts his finger back where it was once bitten. ~ Kanuri Proverb

A single finger cannot catch fleas. ~ Haitian Proverb

You can't hide behind your finger. ~ Greek Proverb

Unfortunate is the man who has no fingernails to scratch his head with. ~ Arabian Proverb

After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers. ~ Traditional Proverb

Don't use your teeth when you can untie the knot with your fingers. ~ Afghan Proverb

The tip of a finger cannot be touched by itself. ~ Sanskrit Proverb

One finger alone cannot even kill a louse. ~ Kenyan Proverb

As the wound inflames the finger, so the thought inflames the mind. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

Better a friend at court than gold on the finger. ~ Welsh Proverb

Your fingers can't be of the same length. ~ Chinese Proverb

He, who steals honey, licks his fingers. ~ Turkish Proverb

Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger. ~ Italian Proverb

I pointed out the stars and moon to you, but all you saw was the tip of my finger! ~ African Proverb

The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can't. ~ Iranian Proverb

One finger can't lift a pebble. ~ Native American Proverb

Quotations about Fingers

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ~ Adam Smith

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. ~ Lech Walesa

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. ~ Larry Flynt

On the other hand, you have different fingers. ~ Steven Wright

God's finger touched him and he slept. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you. ~ Audrey Hepburn

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ~ Louis Nizer

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House. ~ Mark Foley

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the mad? To achievement. One fails? Forward toward success. ~ Charles F. Kettering

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers? ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ~ Lao Tzu

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess. ~ Elvis Presley

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. ~ Heinz Guderian

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand. ~ C.S. Lewis

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle. ~ James Howell

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ~ Isaac Asimov

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless. ~ Author Unknown

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. ~ James Cash Penney

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ~ Charles F. Kettering

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ~ Bette Davis

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. ~ LZ Granderson

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God. ~ Voltaire

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. ~ Will Rogers

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. ~ Marc Chagall

Clean your finger before you point at my spots. ~ Benjamin Franklin