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Showing posts with label Michel de Montaigne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michel de Montaigne. Show all posts

Monday, 28 July 2014

Hands

“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”

― Michel de Montaigne