Vol. 1, Chap. 48. Compare: "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief", Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (on Hampden), History of the Rebellion, Vol. iii, Book vii, Section 84.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
“He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.”
On John Hampden, History of the Rebellion. Vol. iii, Book vii. Section 84. Compare: "In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute", Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xlviii.; "Heart to conceive the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute", Junius, letter xxxvii. Feb. 14, 1770.
Source: 1970s, Address to Congress (12 August 1974)
This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
Misattributed
Variant: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
“If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.”
On being told that part of his sentence had been remitted — that he would merely be executed, but his estate would remain intact, quoted in Joe Miller's Jests (1739) http://books.google.com/books?id=_CbolkOxjEEC&pg=PA6&vq=algernoon+sidney, p. 6.
“The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.”
Introduction
R Is for Rocket (1962)
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
The Two Paths, Lecture II: The Unity of Art, section 54 (1859).
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
